A review of the outcome of upper lid lowering for eyelid retraction and complications of spacers at a single unit over five years

Orbit

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 289-294

  Fenton, Sinead ^a,b   Kemp, E G ^a  

^a GARTNAVEL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Knockion   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Eyelid retraction; Mersilene mesh; Spacer material extrusion; Thyroid orbitopathy; Upper eyelid lowering

Indexed keywords

MERSILENE; POLYGLACTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EYELID RETRACTION; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHOMA; MALE; ORBIT TUMOR; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID DISEASE; TREATMENT INDICATION; UPPER EYELID;

ADULT; AGED; BLEPHAROPLASTY; EYELID DISEASES; EYELIDS; FACIAL NERVE DISEASES; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORBITAL NEOPLASMS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL MESH;

EID: 0036945482     PISSN: 01676830     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/orbi.21.4.289.8557     Document Type: Article

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