Gold weight implantation: A better way?

Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 202-206

  Tower, Robert N ^a   Dailey, Roger A ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ESTHETICS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMPLANT; IMPLANTATION; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; KERATOPATHY; LAGOPHTHALMOS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; ORBIT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EYELID DISEASES; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; GOLD; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2542461011     PISSN: 07409303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.IOP.0000123500.19475.B0     Document Type: Review

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