1. Current techniques in enucleation.
- Author
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Groves, Nancy
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POSTOPERATIVE care , *POSTOPERATIVE pain , *PATIENTS , *PROSTHETICS , *CATHETERS , *SURGICAL complications , *SURGICAL therapeutics , *CONVALESCENCE - Abstract
The article reports on the efforts of physicians to improve postoperative pain control and enhance prosthesis motility for patients. According to Dr. Shannath Merbs, speaker at the Current Concepts in Ophthalmology meeting, said that the catheter system is proven effective and attained the goal of enabling patients recover from surgery in familiar surroundings. She stated that they are also evaluating a magnetic system for improving motility by coupling the orbital implant to the prosthetic eye.
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- 2008