Filtering bleb structure associated with long-term intraocular pressure control after amniotic membrane-assisted trabeculectomy

Current Eye Research

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 239-250

  Nakamura, Makoto ^a   Naka, Maiko ^a   Tatsumi, Yasuko ^a   Nagai Kusuhara, Azusa ^a   Kanamori, Akiyasu ^a   Yamada, Yuko ^a   Negi, Akira ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amniotic membrane; Filtering bleb; Intraocular pressure; Trabeculectomy; Ultrasound biomicroscope

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMNIOTIC MEMBRANE TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BIOMICROSCOPY; CHI SQUARE TEST; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; INTRAOCULAR HYPOTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SLIT LAMP; TRABECULECTOMY; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMNION; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; BIOLOGICAL DRESSINGS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLERA; SURGICAL FLAPS; TRABECULECTOMY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857411758     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: 14602202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02713683.2011.635403     Document Type: Article

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