SURGERY OF ENTROPION
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Entropion in Hong Kong.
TRACHOMA persists as a major scourge in the causation of blindness in the Far East. Of its many complications and sequelae, entropion is undoubtedly the commonest. Apart from the cataract operation, which restores sight, an entropion operation is perhaps the most gratifying in the field of ophthalmology. The following is a report on 1,252 cases of entropion seen in the Ophthalmic Department, Ko...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 1967
ISSN: 0007-1161
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.51.9.640