The clinical phenotype of trachomatous trichiais in Ethiopia: Not all trichiasis is due to Entropion

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 7974-7980

  Rajak, Saul N ^a   Habtamu, Esmael ^b   Weiss, Helen A ^a   Bedri, Amir ^c   Gebre, Teshome ^b   Bailey, Robin L ^a   Mabey, David C W ^a   Khaw, Peng T ^d   Gilbert, Clare E ^a   Emerson, Paul M ^b   Burton, Matthew J ^a,d  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b CARTER CENTER   (United States)

^c Light for the World   (Ethiopia)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA OPACITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTROPION; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LAGOPHTHALMOS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYMBLEPHARON; TRICHIASIS; VISUAL ACUITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EYE SURGERY; EYELASH; EYELID; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; TRACHOMA;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENTROPION; ETHIOPIA; EYELASHES; EYELIDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRACHOMA; TRICHIASIS;

EID: 84555195316     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-7880     Document Type: Article

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