Herbert's operation
Related people
Displacement of a wedge-shaped flap of sclera for the formation of a filtering cicatrix in glaucoma.
Bibliography
- H. Herbert:
The small flap incision for glaucoma.
Transactions of the Ophthalmological Societies of the United Kingdom, 1910, 30: 199-215.
- Jeremy M. Norman, editor:
Morton’s Medical Bibliography. An annotated Check-list of Texts Illustrating the History of Medicine (Garrison and Morton).
Fifth edition. Scolar Press, 1991.
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