Changes in choroidal thickness after trabeculectomy in primary angle closure glaucoma

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2608-2613

  Chen, Shida ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Gao, Xinbo ^a   Li, Zheng ^a   Huang, Wenbing ^a   Li, Xingyi ^a   Zhou, Minwen ^a   Zhang, Xiulan ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Axial length; Choroidal thickness; Intraocular pressure; Trabeculectomy

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; BRIMONIDINE; BRINZOLAMIDE; ISOSORBIDE; LATANOPROST; MANNITOL; PILOCARPINE; PROMETHAZINE; TIMOLOL;

A SCAN; ADULT; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER DEPTH; ARTICLE; BIOMICROSCOPY; CHOROIDAL THICKNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EYE AXIS LENGTH; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LENS SIZE; MACULAR THICKNESS; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA FOVEA; TRABECULECTOMY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; VITREOUS CHAMBER DEPTH;

AXIAL LENGTH; CHOROIDAL THICKNESS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; TRABECULECTOMY;

CHOROID; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TRABECULECTOMY;

EID: 84899656256     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.13-13595     Document Type: Article

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