A Clinical Report on the Use of Autogenous Levator Muscle Transposition and Bilateral Frontalis Sling for Ptotic lid in Neurogenic Blepharo-ptosis.
- Author:
Yang Keum KANG
1
;
Myung Hee KIM
;
Byung Chae CHO
Author Information
1. Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Bilateral frontalis sling;
Levater muscle transposition Neurogenic ptosis
- MeSH:
Humans;
Oculomotor Nerve Diseases;
Regeneration
- From:Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society
1996;37(8):1376-1381
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
The authors performed frontalis sling operation using autogenous levator muscle transposition for ptotic lid between February, 1989 and March, 1993. Four cases were Marcus-Gunn ptosis and one case was paralytic ptosis with aberrant regeneration in patient with oculomotor nerve palsy. The postoperative surgical results were satisfactory cosmetically.
