Prognosis of primary ab externo surgery for primary congenital glaucoma
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Prognosis of primary ab externo surgery for primary congenital glaucoma.
BACKGROUND The strategy of pressure reducing surgery in primary congenital glaucoma has changed over the last decade. Ab externo filtering procedures--for example, trabeculectomy or trabeculotomy combined with trabeculectomy, have now been accepted even as primary intervention. METHODS The authors reviewed 61 eyes in 35 consecutive patients with primary congenital glaucoma, who underwent diff...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0007-1161
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.83.3.317