black and white photograph of eye socket injuries

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black and white photograph of eye socket injuries

Fig 13 Repair eye socket. Extensive damage right side of face with loss of right eye and extensive damage to the eye socket. This patient had his eye socket lined with an excellent skin graft, but still suffered from an almost complete absence of the upper lid and marked displacement of the right eyebrow. This was treated by
1. Z plastic operation right eyebrow. 2. Local plastic remaining right upper lid. 3. The construction of an artificial eye together with the adjacent missing parts of the eyelids. 4. Camouflaged by means of convex spectacles

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Title: War Surgery and Medicine

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Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1954, Wellington

Part of: The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–1945

This text is the subject of: ‘Something of Them Is Here Recorded’: Official History in New Zealand

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