Blepharophimosis: A recommendation for early surgery in patients with severe ptosis

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 138-142

  Beckingsale, Peter S ^a   Sullivan, Timothy J ^a   Wong, Vincent A ^a   Oley, Christine ^a  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blepharophimosis; Blepharoptosis surgery; BPES; Congenital ptosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AMBLYOPIA; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; BLEPHAROPHIMOSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPICANTHUS INVERSUS SYNDROME; EPIPHORA; EYE DISEASE; EYE INFECTION; EYE SURGERY; EYELID; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INHERITANCE; KERATOPATHY; LACRIMAL GLAND; LACRIMAL GLAND DISEASE; MALE; MYOPIA; NEWBORN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PTOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STRABISMUS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AMBLYOPIA; BLEPHAROPHIMOSIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EYELIDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STRABISMUS; SYNDROME;

EID: 0038369018     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-9071.2003.00621.x     Document Type: Article

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