Short tag noose technique for optional and late suture adjustment in strabismus surgery

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 127, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1584-1590

  Nihalani, Bharti R ^a   Whitman, Mary C ^a   Salgado, Cristian M ^a   Loudon, Sjoukje E ^a   Hunter, David G ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONJUNCTIVA; CYST; EXCISION; FOLLOW UP; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHORT TAG NOOSE TECHNIQUE; STRABISMUS; STRABISMUS SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTICAL STRABISMUS; BINOCULAR VISION; CHILD; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRABISMUS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; VISION, BINOCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73349093774     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2009.305     Document Type: Article

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