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Arlta blepharorrhaphy

Arlta blepharorrhaphy (Austrian ophthalmologist of Page F. Arlt, 1812-1887) – surgery on reduction of width of a palpebral fissure excision of a horseshoe strip of skin in the field of a medial corner of an eye with the subsequent tightening of edges of a section.

 
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