Small incision transcutaneous levator aponeurotic repair for blepharoptosis

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 558-561

  Baroody, Michael ^a   Holds, John B ^b,c   Sakamoto, Douglas K ^b   Vick, Valerie L ^b,d   Hartstein, Morris E ^b,e   Serletti, Joseph M ^f   Csank, George A ^f  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Anheuser Busch Eye Institute at St Louis University   (United States)

^f NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CONVALESCENCE; ECCHYMOSIS; EDEMA; EYE SURGERY; EYELID; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SKIN INCISION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE INJURY; TRANSCUTANEOUS LEVATOR APONEUROTIC REPAIR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLEPHAROPTOSIS; EYELIDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2542519364     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000123354.69226.45     Document Type: Review

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