The role of thyroid eye disease and other factors in the overcorrection of hypotropia following unilateral adjustable suture recession of the inferior rectus

Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society

Volumn 109, Issue , 2011, Pages 168-200

  Kerr, Natalie C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBABLE SUTURE; NONABSORBABLE SUTURE;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE OPHTHALMOPATHY; EXOPHTHALMOS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERIOR RECTUS RECESSION; MALE; MEDIAL RECTUS RECESSION; ONSET AGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIPLOPIA; FEMALE; GRAVES OPHTHALMOPATHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRABISMUS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; SUTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856134703     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15456110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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