Adjustable sutures: Who needs them?

Eye

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 683-684

  George, Nick D L ^a  

^a NINEWELLS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SUTURE MATERIAL;

CATARACT EXTRACTION; EDITORIAL; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE SURGERY; HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; STRABISMUS SURGERY; SUTURING METHOD; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0141516661     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.eye.6700466     Document Type: Editorial

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