Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 31, Issue 7 , Pages 1279-1282 , July 2005

Intraoperative Healon5 injection into blebs for small conjunctival breaks created during trabeculectomy

  • Tomomi Higashide, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to Tomomi Higashide, MD, Department of Ophthalmology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, 13-1 Takara-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 9208641, Japan.
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  • Shigeki Tagawa, MD
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  • Kazuhisa Sugiyama, MD

,Accepted 17 November 2004.

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 No author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.

PII: S0886-3350(05)00060-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2004.11.047

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 31, Issue 7 , Pages 1279-1282 , July 2005

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