Müller's muscle-conjunctival resection for correction of upper eyelid ptosis: Relationship between phenylephrine testing and the amount of tissue resected with final eyelid position

Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 413-417

  Ben Simon, Guy J ^a   Lee, Seongmu ^b   Schwarcz, Robert M ^b   McCann, John D ^b   Goldberg, Robert A ^b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; MYDRIATIC AGENT; PHENYLEPHRINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLINKING; CONJUNCTIVA; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYELID; FACE ASYMMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PTOSIS;

AGED; BLEPHAROPTOSIS; BLINKING; CONJUNCTIVA; EYELIDS; FACIAL ASYMMETRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYDRIATICS; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; PHENYLEPHRINE;

EID: 36849017129     PISSN: 15212491     EISSN: 15383660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archfaci.9.6.413     Document Type: Article

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