Experience with the Polymer-Coated Hydroxyapatite Implant after Enucleation in 126 Patients

Ophthalmology

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 367-373

  Shields, Carol L ^a   Uysal, Yusuf ^a   Marr, Brian P ^a   Lally, Sara E ^a   Rodriques, Eduardo ^a   Kharod, Bhairavi ^a   Shields, Jerry A ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYAPATITE; POLYMER;

ADHESION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLERGIC REACTION; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BLINDNESS; CASE STUDY; CHILD; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOTHERAPY; CYST; DEVICE INFECTION; ENUCLEATION; EXPERIENCE; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE PAIN; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; INFANT; INTRAOCULAR TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOVASCULAR GLAUCOMA; ORBIT; ORBIT IMPLANT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYOGENIC GRANULOMA; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINOBLASTOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TISSUE REACTION; UVEA MELANOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; DURAPATITE; EYE ENUCLEATION; EYE MOVEMENTS; EYE, ARTIFICIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORBITAL IMPLANTS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POLYMERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33846515674     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2006.08.030     Document Type: Article

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