Resident-performed ex-press shunt implantation versus trabeculectomy

Journal of Glaucoma

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 469-474

  Seider, Michael I ^a   Rofagha, Soraya ^a   Lin, Shan C ^a   Stamper, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ex PRESS shunt; filtering surgery; trabeculectomy

Indexed keywords

ANTIGLAUCOMA AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FILTERING OPERATION; GENERAL DEVICE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESIDENT; SHUNTING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRABECULECTOMY; UNITED STATES;

AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANTS; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER THERAPY; MALE; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865976120     PISSN: 10570829     EISSN: 1536481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IJG.0b013e3182182bfb     Document Type: Article

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