Ex-PRESS Implantation Versus Trabeculectomy in Uncontrolled Glaucoma: A Meta-Analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Wei ^a   Zhou, Minwen ^a   Huang, Wenbin ^a   Zhang, Xiulan ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANT; HUMAN; HYPHEMA; IMPLANTATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR HYPOTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; META ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL TOLERANCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); TRABECULECTOMY;

AGED; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANTS; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; SCLERA; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84878599696     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063591     Document Type: Article

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