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Community-based transconjunctival marginal rotation for cicatricial trachoma in Indians from the Upper Rio Negro basin

O.E. Soares; A.A.V. Cruz · 2004 · Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

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Abstract

The objective of the present study was to describe, for the first time in Brazil, the use by a non-ophthalmologist of a community-based marginal rotation procedure by a posterior approach in the indigenous population from the Upper Rio Negro basin. Seventy-three upper eyelids of 46 Indians (11 males and 35 females) with cicatricial upper eyelid entropion and trichiasis were operated in the Indian communities using a marginal rotational procedure by a posterior approach by a non-ophthalmologist physician who had general surgery experience but only an extremely short period (one week) of ophthal

Abstract by O.E. Soares; A.A.V. Cruz, Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research (2004) — licensed CC BY 4.0.

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Metadata source: DOAJ · DOI 10.1590/s0100-879x2004000500007