Balanced orbital decompression combined with fat removal in graves ophthalmopathy: Do we really need to remove the third wall?

Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 112-118

  Ünal, Mehmet ^a,b   Ileri, Fikret ^a   Konuk, Onur ^a   Hasanreisoǧlu, Berati ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIPLOPIA; ENDOCRINE OPHTHALMOPATHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EXOPHTHALMOS; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIPECTOMY; MALE; ORBIT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DIPLOPIA; EXOPHTHALMOS; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ORBIT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037345842     PISSN: 07409303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.IOP.0000056145.71641.F5     Document Type: Article

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