Long-term follow-up of patients with frontalis sling operation in the treatment of essential blepharospasm unresponsive to botulinum toxin therapy

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 245, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 45-50

  Wabbels, Bettina ^a   Roggenkämper, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Botulinum toxin; Essential blepharospasm; Frontalis sling; Surgery

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN B;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEPHAROSPASM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY EYE; EYELID RECONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; BLEPHAROSPASM; BOTULINUM TOXIN TYPE A; EYELIDS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMUSCULAR AGENTS; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 34248662396     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-006-0392-5     Document Type: Article

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