Complications of the transconjunctival approach: A review of 400 cases

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 385-388

  Mullins, J Byron ^a,d   Holds, John B ^b,c   Branham, Gregory H ^c   Thomas, J Regan ^c  

^a Phys Skin Care Facial Plast S   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVULSION INJURY; CHILD; CONJUNCTIVA; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; ECTROPION; ENTROPION; EYELID RECONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LACERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORBIT RECONSTRUCTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL APPROACH;

EID: 0030992405     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archoto.123.4.385     Document Type: Article

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