phacotrabeculectomy

noun

An extension of trabeculectomy to include the lens

Scrabble 37

Meanings

nounphacotrabeculectomy (plural phacotrabeculectomies)

plural phacotrabeculectomies

  1. medicineAn extension of trabeculectomy to include the lens

    The risk of malignant glaucoma after phacotrabeculectomy and phacoiridencleisis was equivalent ( P = 0.058).

    2015 August 12, Marek Rękas, Karolina Krix-Jachym, Tomasz Żarnowski, “Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Surgical Treatment of Malignant Glaucoma in Pseudophakic Eyes through Partial PPV with Establishment of Communication between the Anterior Chamber and the Vitreous Cavity”, in Journal of Ophthalmology, volume 2015, →DOI

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