Repair of eroded glaucoma drainage devices: Mid-term outcomes

Journal of Glaucoma

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 619-622

  Low, Stephanie A W ^a   Rootman, Dan B ^a   Rootman, David S ^a,b   Trope, Graham E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

buccal membrane; erosion; glaucoma drainage device; wound repair

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BUCCAL MEMBRANE TRANSPLANT; CASE STUDY; CHEEK MUCOSA; CILIARY DISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CORNEA EROSION; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE DEVICE EROSION; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANT; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WOUND HEALING;

CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH; MOUTH MUCOSA; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84871066652     PISSN: 10570829     EISSN: 1536481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IJG.0b013e3182447d83     Document Type: Article

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