War surgery of the faceA treatise on plastic restoration after facial injury by John BRoberts ..Prepared at the suggestion of the subsection on plastic and oral surgery connected with the office of the surgeon generalIllustrated with 256 figures . Fig. 231.— V-flap for oblique ectropion. muscular tissue in the flap where its hinge is made and to havea sufficient space between the incision which cuts the flap and theincision going through the substance of the lid. The raw surfaces left after dividing a symblepharon may becovered with Thiersch skin grafts, or mucous membrane should
War surgery of the faceA treatise on plastic restoration after facial injury by John BRoberts ..Prepared at the suggestion of the subsection on plastic and oral surgery connected with the office of the surgeon generalIllustrated with 256 figures . Fig. 231.— V-flap for oblique ectropion. muscular tissue in the flap where its hinge is made and to havea sufficient space between the incision which cuts the flap and theincision going through the substance of the lid. The raw surfaces left after dividing a symblepharon may becovered with Thiersch skin grafts, or mucous membrane should be stitched to the conjunctiva of the globe and tothe margin of the lid. They may be held more accurately inplace by inserting a glass or metal shell over the eyeball. Thiswill press the graft down into the oculo-palpebral groove andmaintain apposition of the applied raw surfaces. A semilunarlead disk cut to fit the groove and having holes by which it maybe stitched to the margin of the lid and to the graft is a satisfac-tory device. The skin or mucous graft and disk should beadjusted by sutures to the edge of the eyelid. Then the two lids WAR SURGERY OF THE FACE. Plate D
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