The Effect of Modified Kestenbum Procedure (6-7-6-7mm) for Abonormal Heal Position in Infantile Nystagmus.
- Author:
Jong Bok LEE
1
;
In Sik LEE
;
Hee Sun KIM
;
Seung Han HAN
Author Information
1. Department of Ophthalmology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Abnormal head position;
Infantile nystagmus;
Modified kestenbaum
- MeSH:
Diagnosis;
Exotropia;
Follow-Up Studies;
Head;
Humans
- From:Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society
1997;38(12):2207-2213
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
We assessed the efficacy of modified Kestenbaum procedure for the correction of abnormal head position in 16 patients with the diagnosis of in fantile nystagmus. Instead of Parks 5-6-7-8mm modified Kestenbaum procedure, we performed 6-7-6-7mm modified Kestenbaum on 11 patients with head turn of 20-30, 20% augmented procedure(7.2-8.4-7.2-8.4mm) on 4 patients with head turn of 30 or more, and-1mm procedure(5-6-5-6mm) on 1 patent with head turn of less than 20. In the average follow-up of 7 months, 10 patients(62.5%) showed head turn of less than 5, in which 14 of 16 patients had less than10 .87.5% of the patients showed satisfactory correction of abnormal head position., 12 prism diopter of exotropia was noted postoperatively in 1 case but the duction was not limited in any case. From the above results, we conclude that 6-7-6-7mm modified Kestenbaum nystagmus.
