Symblepharon and Its Treatment
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one or both eyelids either partial or complete to the eye-ball. The cornea may or may not participate in this adhesion but 'it usually is somewhat implicated, and this adhesion, between the eyelid and cornea, is called by some " Traumatic Pterygium:' When, besides this condition of affairs, the two eyelids adhere to each other it is called anklyoblepharon. This disease is usually the result of some very strong irritant, or caustic, gaining access to
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دوره 39 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016