Success rate of nurse-led everting sutures for involutional lower lid entropion
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Everting suture correction of lower lid involutional entropion.
AIMS To assess the long term efficacy of everting sutures in the correction of lower lid involutional entropion and to quantify the effect upon lower lid retractor function. METHODS A prospective single armed clinical trial of 62 eyelids in 57 patients undergoing everting suture correction of involutional entropion. Patients were assessed preoperatively and at 6, 12, 24, and 48 months postope...
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عنوان ژورنال: Eye
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0950-222X,1476-5454
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2016.314