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Surgical management of raised intra-ocular tension in the hostile ocular surface - recurrent tube erosion in a patient with systemic sclerosis: a case report

BACKGROUND: The surgical management of patients with uncontrolled glaucoma and scleroderma is challenging, as the hostile ocular surface poses a challenge to surgery. A serious complication is tube erosion, with the risk of subsequent endophthalmitis. Here, we present a novel technique of harvesting...

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Autores principales: Jutley, Gurjeet, Yang, Elizabeth, Bloom, Phillip
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6157120/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30255798
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12886-018-0856-5