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Collecting And Measuring Wound Exudate Biochemical Mediators In Surgical Wounds
Published on: October 20, 2012
Management of postoperative inflammation: dexamethasone versus flurbiprofen, a quantitative study using the new Flare
1Department of Ophthalmology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Mo.
Ophthalmic Surgery
|August 1, 1990
Abstract:
A consecutive, random, prospective study was conducted to compare the effect of topical dexamethasone and flurbiprofen drops on postoperative inflammation in patients undergoing extracapsular cataract extraction with lens implantation. Objective, quantitative measurements were made postoperatively, using the Kowa FC-1000 Flare Cell Meter. The two treatments were equally effective.
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