Atlas and epitome of operative ophthalmology . be. Obstinate (senile, paralytic) cases of ectropion willnot be permanently cured by this method of suturing. For paralytic ectropion of the lower lid tarsorrhaphy isa better operation. 2. For old advanced cases one may recommend Szym-anowskys Operation, in which the lower lid is thor-oughly elevated at the inner or outer canthus, while therelated operation of Dieffenbach merely effects tensionand shortening of the lid in a horizontal operation consists in making a skin incisionrunning toward the temple, in the line of the p
Atlas and epitome of operative ophthalmology . be. Obstinate (senile, paralytic) cases of ectropion willnot be permanently cured by this method of suturing. For paralytic ectropion of the lower lid tarsorrhaphy isa better operation. 2. For old advanced cases one may recommend Szym-anowskys Operation, in which the lower lid is thor-oughly elevated at the inner or outer canthus, while therelated operation of Dieffenbach merely effects tensionand shortening of the lid in a horizontal operation consists in making a skin incisionrunning toward the temple, in the line of the palpebralfissure, and adding two incisions running downward fromthe extremities of the skin incision and converging toform an equilateral triangle; the sutures are introducedhorizontally after the adjoining palpebral margin has beenfreshened up. In Szymanowskys method elevation iseffected by excising a flat triangle, the obtuse angle ofwhich coincides with the canthus, while the hypothenuseruns in a vertical direction at some distance from the.
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