Are there filtering blebs after canaloplasty?

Journal of Glaucoma

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 89-94

  Klink, Thomas ^a   Panidou, Ermioni ^a   Kanzow Terai, Barbara ^a   Klink, Janine ^b   Schlunck, Günther ^a   Grehn, Franz J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Group Practice Dres   (Germany)

Author keywords

anterior segment OCT; canaloplasty; filtering bleb; glaucoma surgery; highfrequency ultrasound biomicroscopy; nonpenetrating glaucoma surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMICROSCOPY; CANALOPLASTY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EYE DISEASE; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; FILTERING BLEB; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; BLISTER; CONJUNCTIVA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FILTERING SURGERY; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84857193525     PISSN: 10570829     EISSN: 1536481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IJG.0b013e3182027905     Document Type: Article

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