Early surgical intervention as definitive treatment for ocular adnexal capillary haemangioma

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 418-423

  Slaughter, Kate ^a   Sullivan, Timothy ^a   Boulton, Jonathon ^a   O'Reagan, Peter ^a   Gole, Glen ^a  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capillary haemangioma; Orbital; Periorbital

Indexed keywords

INTERFERON; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

AMBLYOPIA; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CAPILLARY HEMANGIOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIATHERMY; EYE SURGERY; EYELID TUMOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; LAGOPHTHALMOS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PTOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; TEAMWORK; TREATMENT INDICATION; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

AMBLYOPIA; ASTIGMATISM; BLEPHAROPTOSIS; EYE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA, CAPILLARY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0344899858     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-9071.2003.00689.x     Document Type: Article

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