Not treating these intangible, yet equally real injuries, may lead to long-term functional problems.
Those concomitant lesions are reported to significantly influence the long-term functional outcome.
These degenerative phenomena can potentially have a worsening impact on the long-term functional prognosis.
Stroke is associated with a high mortality and significant long-term functional disability.
To determine the long-term functional results of epikeratophakia for myopic patients.
These structures often present long-term functional problems after conventional reconstructive surgery.
Long-term functional results are satisfactory but associated procedures may alter patient satisfaction.
None of the previous Saudi literature, however, examined long-term functional outcomes, limiting the comparability of our results to others.
Mild complications were considered to be of no long-term functional or anatomical significance and included pin site infections.
Long-term functional follow-up was achieved in only 6 patients, and ranged from 97 to 167 months.
As mentioned, our study is about long-term functional outcomes and these data are unfortunately also scarce after surgical treatment.
