Initial nasolacrimal duct probing in children under age 5: Cure rate and factors affecting success

Journal of AAPOS

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 360-363

  Kashkouli, Mohsen Bahmani ^a,b,c   Kassaee, Abolfazl ^d   Tabatabaee, Ziaeddin ^d  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Iranian and American Academies of Ophthalmologists   (United States)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INFANT; LACRIMAL DUCT; LACRIMAL DUCT OCCLUSION; LACRIMAL DUCT PROBING; LACRIMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGE; DACRYOCYSTITIS; INTUBATION; METHODOLOGY; REOPERATION;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DACRYOCYSTITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTUBATION; LACRIMAL DUCT OBSTRUCTION; MALE; NASOLACRIMAL DUCT; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036885901     PISSN: 10918531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mpa.2002.129041     Document Type: Article

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