Clinical experience with a novel glaucoma drainage implant

Journal of Glaucoma

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Kim, James ^a   Allingham, R Rand ^a   Hall, Jason ^a   Klitzman, Bruce ^b   Stinnett, Sandra ^a   Asrani, Sanjay ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY EYE CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANTS; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84894092415     PISSN: 10570829     EISSN: 1536481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IJG.0b013e3182955d73     Document Type: Article

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