Encasement of a gold weight with dermal fat graft in the management of paralytic lagophthalmos

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1217-1221

  Tan, Onder ^a   Ergen, Duygu ^a  

^a ATATURK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; POLYGLACTIN; POLYPROPYLENE; STAINLESS STEEL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; COMPOSITE SKIN GRAFT; ESTHETIC SURGERY; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYELID EDEMA; EYELID MOVEMENT; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FASCIA LATA; HUMAN; IMPLANT; LAGOPHTHALMOS; MALE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INCISION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; UPPER EYELID; WEIGHT; EYELID DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; EYELID DISEASES; GOLD; HUMANS; MALE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT;

EID: 42949157275     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000304319.22504.47     Document Type: Article

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