Trachomatous Trichiasis and its Management in Endemic Countries

Survey of Ophthalmology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 105-135

  Rajak, Saul N ^a,b   Collin, J Richard O ^b   Burton, Matthew J ^a,b  

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

^b MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Entropion; Eyelash; Eyelid; Surgery; Trachoma; Trichiasis

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS INFECTION; ANTERIOR LAMELLAR REPOSITIONING; ATOPIC KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS; AUTOIMMUNITY; BILAMELLAR TARSAL ROTATION; BLINDNESS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA OPACIFICATION; CRYOTHERAPY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIPHTHERIA; ELECTROLYSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENTROPION; EPILATION; EVERSION SPLINTING; EYE INFLAMMATION; EYE SURGERY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; LASH FOLLICLE DETRUCTION PROCEDURE; LID NOTCHING; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEMPHIGOID; POSTERIOR LAMELLAR LENGTHENING PROCEDURE; POSTERIOR LAMELLAR TARSAL ROTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; RURAL POPULATION; SCAR FORMATION; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; STITCH GRANULOMA; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TARSAL ADVANCE PROCEDURE; TARSAL WEDGE RESECTION; TARSECTOMY; TRACHOMA; TREATMENT INDICATION; TRICHIASIS; VISUAL ACUITY; WOUND INFECTION;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; POVERTY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RURAL POPULATION; TRACHOMA; TRICHIASIS; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84856958758     PISSN: 00396257     EISSN: 18793304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.survophthal.2011.08.002     Document Type: Review

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