Minimally Invasive Strabismus Surgery for Horizontal Concomitant Strabismus

Minimally invasive strabismus surgery.

surgery, which reduce tissue trauma, post-operative patient discomfort, hospital stay and working disability. For such techniques, it is advisable to use the operating microscope, although they can also be performed using magnifying spectacles. Usually, a higher magnification allows a less traumatic tissue dissection and a better control of bleeding. Chemodenervation therapy, which can also be ...

Minimally invasive strabismus surgery for horizontal rectus muscle reoperations

AIMS To study if minimally invasive strabismus surgery (MISS) is suitable for rectus muscle reoperations. METHODS The study presents a series of consecutive patients operated on by the same surgeon at Kantonsspital St Gallen, Switzerland with a novel MISS rectus muscle reoperation technique. Surgery is done by applying two small radial cuts along the muscle insertion. Through the tunnel obtai...

Minimally invasive strabismus surgery for rectus muscle posterior fixation.

AIMS To present a novel, minimally invasive strabismus surgery (MISS) technique for rectus muscle posterior fixation. METHODS This study reports the results of 32 consecutive MISS rectus muscle posterior fixation surgeries performed on 19 patients by applying only two small L-shaped openings where the two retroequatorial scleromuscular sutures were placed. RESULTS On the first postoperative...

Erratum for "Comparison of Minimally Invasive Strabismus (MISS) and Conventional Strabismus Surgery Using the Limbal Approach".

ADJUSTABLE SUTURE IN STRABISMUS SURGERY

Adjustable suture in strabismus surgery is a way to get accurate alignment of the eyes after operation. This technique is used in cooperative patients, being either adults or children. We report the result of this technique in 120 patients, 70 with esotropia and 50 exotropia. The amount of deviation was between 20 and 60 prismdiopters. The patients were mostly adults and teenagers. and the...