Small incision external levator repair: Technique and early results

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 637-644

  Lucarelli, Mark J ^a   Lemke, Bradley N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Davis Duehr Dean Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EYELID MUSCLE; EYELID RECONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN INCISION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; WOUND HEALING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLEPHAROPTOSIS; CHILD; EYELIDS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032992187     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9394(99)00064-1     Document Type: Article

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