American Journal of Ophthalmology
Volume 141, Issue 6 , Pages 1033-1043.e1 , June 2006

LXII Edward Jackson Lecture: Open Angle Glaucoma After Vitrectomy

  • Stanley Chang, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationInquiries to Stanley Chang, MD, Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute, 635 West 165th St, New York, NY 10032

,Accepted 6 February 2006.

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 Supported, in part, by an unrestricted grant to the Department of Ophthalmology from Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc, New York, New York, the K.K. Tse and Ku Teh Ying Endowed Professorship, and the Louis V. Gerstner, Jr, Clinical Research Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York.I would like to thank Norihiko Yoshida, MD, and Paulo Escario, MD, Columbia University, for their diligence and precision in the review and statistical analysis of massive amounts of data and Michael Chiang, MD, and James Tsai, MD, Columbia University, for their constructive review of the study design and their statistical support.

PII: S0002-9394(06)00254-6

doi: 10.1016/j.ajo.2006.02.014

American Journal of Ophthalmology
Volume 141, Issue 6 , Pages 1033-1043.e1 , June 2006

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