Management of Mersilene® mesh chronic eyelid complications: A systematic approach

Eye

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 640-642

  Mehta, P ^a   Patel, P ^a   Olver, J M ^a  

^a WESTERN EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Excision; Frontalis suspension; Mersilene mesh extrusion

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MERSILENE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; EYEBROW; EYELID DISEASE; EYELID RECONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PTOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RECURRENT INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; FOREIGN BODY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLEPHAROPTOSIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL MESH;

EID: 3242678959     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.eye.6700681     Document Type: Article

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