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Anatomy of the Periorbital Region

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The knowledge of orbital anatomy is very important in understanding the surgical maneuvers and steps to be followed for an uneventful result in blepharoplasty. This chapter is focusing mainly on the soft-tissue anatomy of the orbit and eyelids, but some points of the bony skeleton anatomy are also mentioned.

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  1. Plastic Aesthetic and Laser Surgery, Hygeia hospital, Athens, Greece

    Paraskevas Kontoes

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Kontoes, P. (2017). Anatomy of the Periorbital Region. In: State of the art in Blepharoplasty. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52642-3_1

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