Endonasal Dacryocystorhinostomy: Is It Really Less Successful?

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 108-110

  Goldberg, Robert Alan ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DACRYOCYSTORHINOSTOMY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LACRIMAL DUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

DACRYOCYSTORHINOSTOMY; HUMANS; LACRIMAL DUCT OBSTRUCTION; NASOLACRIMAL DUCT;

EID: 0346093907     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.122.1.108     Document Type: Editorial

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