Delayed complications of silicone implants used in orbital fracture repairs

Orbit

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 147-151

  Warrier, Sunil ^a,b   Prabhakaran, Venkatesh C ^a   Davis, Garry ^a   Selva, Dinesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Delayed complications; Orbital fractures; Silicone implants

Indexed keywords

SILICONE;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; DIPLOPIA; EYELID RETRACTION; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; OCULAR FIBROSIS; ORBIT ABSCESS; ORBIT CELLULITIS; ORBIT FRACTURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SILICONE PROSTHESIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COHORT STUDIES; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORBITAL FRACTURES; ORBITAL IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SILICONE ELASTOMERS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 45749090956     PISSN: 01676830     EISSN: 17445108     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01676830802077611     Document Type: Article

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