The treatment of severe trachomatous dry eye with canalicular silicone plugs

Eye

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 297-303

  Guzey, Mustafa ^a   Ozardali, Ilyas ^a   Kilic, Adil ^a   Basar, Emel ^b   Dogan, Zeki ^a   Satici, Ahmet ^a   Karadede, Sezin ^a  

^a HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Canalicular occlusion; Canalicular plugs; Dry eye; Impression cytology; Trachoma

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ARTIFICIAL TEAR; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN IMPLANT; FLUORESCEIN; RETINOIC ACID; ROSE BENGAL; SILICONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRY EYE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GOBLET CELL; HUMAN; IMPRESSION CYTOLOGY; LACRIMAL DUCT OCCLUSION; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; SCAR FORMATION; SCHIRMER TEST; SCORING SYSTEM; SQUAMOUS CELL METAPLASIA; STAINING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; TEAR FILM; TIME; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; TOPICAL TREATMENT; TRACHOMA;

EID: 0034960788     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2001.98     Document Type: Article

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