Ab externo schlemm's canal surgery: Viscocanalostomy and canaloplasty

Developments in Ophthalmology

Volumn 50, Issue , 2012, Pages 109-124

  Grieshaber, Matthias C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; FILTERING OPERATION; GLAUCOMA; GONIOSCOPY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; SUTURING METHOD; TRABECULAR MESHWORK;

AQUEOUS HUMOR; CATHETERIZATION; FILTERING SURGERY; GLAUCOMA; GONIOSCOPY; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TRABECULAR MESHWORK;

EID: 84860878632     PISSN: 02503751     EISSN: 16622790     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000334793     Document Type: Article

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