Complications of gold weight eyelid implants for treatment of fifth and seventh nerve paralysis

Laryngoscope

Volumn 107, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1617-1622

  Dinces, Elizabeth A ^a   Mauriello, Joseph A ^b   Kwartler, Jed A ^a   Franklin, Mark ^b  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY AND VISUAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE; EYELID RECONSTRUCTION; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; LAGOPHTHALMOS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; UPPER EYELID;

ADULT; AGED; EYELIDS; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; GOLD; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARALYSIS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 0030695142     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199712000-00008     Document Type: Article

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