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Essential blepharospasm is an incurable disease for which many treatment modalities fave been tried. The author has performed the Anderson's muscle stripping procrdure involving the meticulous extirpation of all eyelid...
Twenty-six soft intraocular lenses were implanted in twenty-six senile cataract patients from luly 16, 1987, to April 15, 1988 at Kangnam St. Mary's Hospital, Seoul, Korea. The average age of...
Inferior oblique myectomies or Z-myotomies were performed on 159 eyes of 121 patients who had an overacting inferior oblique muscle or muscles. The results were as follows; 1. Success rates...
The significance of tear film break-up time (BUT) was investigated by analyzing its distribution and reproducibility in 30 normal subjects and 20 dry eye patients. The BUTs* were all above...
Normal kittens showed a gradual increase from 17.6% to 25.5% of BLS with aging from the fifth week to the ninth. Young kittens showed significantly less BLS than do adult...
Lyodura(R) is a commercial name of a cleaned, desantigenized, desenzymatized, rendered free of pyogenics, sterilized by gamma rays, and lyophilized dura. Frontalis suspension with Lyodura(R) was performed on a total...
This study was undertaken to localize fibronectin and type IV collagen in the cultured retinal pigment epithelial cell by means of immunofluorescent staining and immunocytochemical methods. Immunofluorescent staining and immunocytochemical...
A large recession of one lateral rectus muscle for exotropia is an infrequently used procedure. In this prospective study, 27 patients (3 to 19 years, mean age of 7) with...
Strabismus surgeries using n-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate and 6-0 vicryl suture material were performed in 16 albino rabbits. Both eyes of 16 rabbits were used. The superior and inferior rectus muscles were recessed...
This experiment used 30 rabbits (40 normal eyes) to determine the applicability of an expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (e-PTFE) surgical membrane as a glaucoma seton. The e-PTFE membrane had 0.1 mm thickness...