Post-septal upper eyelid loading for treatment of exposure keratopathy secondary to non-cicatricial lagophthalmos

Orbit

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 239-244

  Wagh, Vijay Kumar ^a   Lim, Wei S ^a   Cascone, Nikhil C ^a   Morley, A M S ^a  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exposure keratopathy; facial nerve paralysis; gold weight; lid loading

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL TEAR; GOLD; PLATINUM;

ACOUSTIC NEUROMA; ADULT; AGED; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; BLURRED VISION; CANCER SURGERY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOLESTEATOMA; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORNEA; DEVICE REMOVAL; EXPOSURE KERATOPATHY; EXTERNAL OTITIS; EYE DISCOMFORT; EYE SWELLING; EYELID CLOSURE; EYELID REFLEX; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; GOLD ALLERGY; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INFECTION; INJURY; KERATOPATHY; LAGOPHTHALMOS; MALE; MASTOIDECTOMY; MENINGITIS; NERVE PARALYSIS; OPHTHALMOLOGICAL IMPLANT; OSTEOMYELITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PTOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; STAINING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EYELID; UPPER EYELID LOADING; WEIGHT; COMPLICATION; CORNEAL DISEASES; EYELID; EYELID DISEASES; INNERVATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORNEAL DISEASES; EYELID DISEASES; EYELIDS; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; GOLD; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84981285689     PISSN: 01676830     EISSN: 17445108     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01676830.2016.1176213     Document Type: Article

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