Interventions for trachoma trichiasis

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2015, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Burton, Matthew ^a   Habtamu, Esmael ^a   Ho, Derek ^b   Gower, Emily W ^c  

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

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; PLACEBO; POLYGLACTIN; TETRACYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADVERSE EVENT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; CORNEA OPACITY; COST; CRYOTHERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ELECTROLYSIS; EPILATION; EXCISION; EYE CARE; EYE SURGERY; EYELASH; EYELID; EYELID DISEASE; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LID TAPING; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; OPHTHALMOLOGIST; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRACHOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICHIASIS; VISUAL ACUITY; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ENTROPION; ESTHETIC SURGERY; EYELID DISEASES; META ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ENTROPION; EYELID DISEASES; HAIR REMOVAL; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TRACHOMA;

EID: 84959128709     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004008.pub3     Document Type: Review

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