Comparison of limbus-based and fornix-based trabeculectomy: Success, bleb-related complications, and bleb morphology

Ophthalmology

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 703-711

  Solus, Jason F ^a   Jampel, Henry D ^a   Tracey, Patricia A ^a   Gilbert, Donna L ^a   Loyd, Tara L ^a   Jefferys, Joan L ^a   Quigley, Harry A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPLEGIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BRAIN FORNIX; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA LIMBUS; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSESTHESIA; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGEON; SURVIVAL; TRABECULECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CONJUNCTIVA; EYELIDS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859267849     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2011.09.046     Document Type: Article

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