Community-based transconjunctival marginal rotation for cicatricial trachoma in Indians from the Upper Rio Negro basin
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...
Main Authors: | O.E. Soares, A.A.V. Cruz |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica
2004-05-01
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Series: | Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2004000500007 |
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