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Early postoperative trabeculectomy leakage: incidence, time course, severity, and impact on surgical outcome
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- Published on: 22 March 2016
- Published on: 22 March 2016Regarding postoperative trabeculectomy leakage.Show More
Dear Editor
We read with interest the report by Henderson et al.[1] The title of the paper includes the word "early" and the median time to leak is 3.5 days, but the range of time taken for bleb leakage to develop extends to 408 days postoperatively. We do not think this is early nor a postoperative complication.
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