Concept information
Preferred term
Filtering Surgery
Type
-
Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Entry terms
- Filtration Surgery
- Surgery, Filtering
- Surgery, Filtration
Scope note
- A surgical procedure used in treatment of glaucoma in which an opening is created through which aqueous fluid may pass from the anterior chamber into a sac created beneath the conjunctiva, thus lowering the pressure within the eye. (Hoffman, Pocket Glossary of Ophthalmologic Terminology, 1989)
History note
- 95
In other languages
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Finnish
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filtroiva kirurgia
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Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D018463
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