Device-modified trabeculectomy for glaucoma

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2015, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Wang, Xue ^a   Khan, Rabeea ^b   Coleman, Anne ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b OLIVE VIEW UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNION; ASIA; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; EUROPE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; HYPHEMA; INTRAOCULAR HYPOTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AMERICA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SOUTH AMERICA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRABECULECTOMY; UNCERTAINTY; DEVICES; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANT; PROCEDURES; TRANSPLANTATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

BIOMATERIAL; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN-GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN COPOLYMER; GELATIN; GELATIN FILM; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; POLITEF;

AMNION; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; COLLAGEN; GELATIN; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANTS; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TRABECULECTOMY; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 85016824039     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD010472.pub2     Document Type: Review

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