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Blashkovich operation

Blashkovich operation (L. Blaskovics, the Hungarian ophthalmologist, 1869-1938) – the surgery applied to elimination of a ptosis at which carry out shortening of the muscle raising an upper eyelid and a resection of his cartilage.

 
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