Sonologic similarity in the differential diagnosis of pediatric neovascular glaucoma
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Neovascular glaucoma: etiology, diagnosis and prognosis.
Neovascular glaucoma (NVG) is a severe form of glaucoma with devastating visual outcome attributed to new blood vessels obstructing aqueous humor outflow, usually secondary to widespread posterior segment ischemia. Invasion of the anterior chamber by a fibrovascular membrane initially obstructs aqueous outflow in an open-angle fashion and later contracts to produce secondary synechial angle-clo...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Kerala Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0976-6677
DOI: 10.4103/kjo.kjo_17_20