Lower Eyelid Reconstruction, Ectropion: Follow-up

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Further Reading

Keywords

lower lid ectropion, lower lid laxity, eyelid eversion, involutional, cicatricial, tarsal, congenital, neurogenic, paralytic, lower eyelid reconstruction, eyelid laxity

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Mounir Bashour, MD, CM, FRCS(C), PhD, FACS, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, McGill University; Clinical Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Sherbrooke University; Medical Director, Cornea Laser and Lasik MD
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