Evaluation of filtering blebs using the Wuerzburg bleb classification score compared to clinical findings

BMC Ophthalmology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Furrer, Sandra ^a   Menke, Marcel N ^b   Funk, Jens ^c   Töteberg Harms, Marc ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bleb grading; Filtering bleb; Filtration surgery; Glaucoma; Trabeculectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLISTER; CLASSIFICATION; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; FEMALE; FILTERING OPERATION; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRABECULECTOMY; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLISTER; CONJUNCTIVAL DISEASES; FEMALE; FILTERING SURGERY; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRABECULECTOMY; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84866256385     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2415-12-24     Document Type: Article

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