Trabeculectomy with Mitomycin-C Versus Trabeculectomy with Amniotic Membrane Transplant: A Medium-term Randomized, Controlled Trial

Journal of Glaucoma

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 556-559

  Khairy, Hany A ^a   Elsawy, Moataz F ^a  

^a Menoufia University Hospital   (Egypt)

Author keywords

amniotic membrane transplant; open angle glaucoma; trabeculectomy

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN; ALKYLATING AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AMNIOTIC MEMBRANE TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPHEMA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRABECULECTOMY; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND COMPLICATION; AMNION; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ALKYLATING AGENTS; AMNION; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOMYCIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84942197833     PISSN: 10570829     EISSN: 1536481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IJG.0000000000000060     Document Type: Article

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