Lid surgery in patients affected with leprosy in North-Eastern Nigeria: Are their needs being met?

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 11-13

  Mpyet, Caleb ^a   Hogeweg, Margreet ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOS   (Nigeria)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; ENTROPION; EYE SURGERY; EYELID; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAGOPHTHALMOS; LEPROSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIGERIA; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; TRICHIASIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLINDNESS; ENTROPION; EYELID DISEASES; EYELIDS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; LEPROSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 32644436593     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/004947506775598905     Document Type: Article

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