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From: Comparison of bleb morphologies between phacoemulsification combined with Ex-PRESS mini shunt implantation, phacotrabeculectomy and trabeculectomy alone: a two-year retrospective in vivo confocal microscopy study

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Assessment of filtering blebs. This figure showed the assessment of filtering bleb by slit-lamp, anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) and in vivo confocal microscope (IVCM).The striping phenomenon (red arrows), which showed multiple parallel hyperreflective areas inside the presumed Tenon’s layer, was recorded in each filtering bleb. After taking AS-OCT photograph, scanning involving the 5 sites, numbered 1 to 5 in the slit-lamp photograph, was conducted by IVCM. The AS-OCT scanning was taken across the blue line, as shown in the slit-lamp photograph. For each site, the microcysts area (white arrows) and hyperreflective dots (blue arrows) in the epithelium (E1-E5) and connective tissue in the stroma (S1-S5) were recorded for evaluation

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BMC Ophthalmology

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