Skin grafts may be used for coverage of facial defects in situations which alternative methods reconstruction, such as local flaps, are not an option. They also beneficial patients who wish to avoid or good candidates more complex reconstruction. Full-thickness skin often have a better color and texture match adjacent when compared split-thickness grafts; however, lower metabolic demand increas...

BACKGROUND Static reconstruction surgery that tightens the tension of the inferior tarsus, thereby raising the lax lower eyelid, is a common treatment for paralytic ectropion of the lower eyelid. We present one such operative procedure, in which an orbicularis oculi muscle flap was used. METHODS The surgical technique involves partial resection of the tarsus and the skin, as well as a superio...

Background Lower eyelid incisions are widely used for the orbital approach in periorbital trauma and aesthetic surgery. In general, the subciliary approach is known to cause disposition of the lower eyelid by scarring the anterior lamella in some cases. On the other hand, many surgeons believe that a transconjunctival approach usually does not result in such complications and is a reliable meth...

Ophthal Plast Reconstr Surg, Vol. 32, No. 3, 2016 237 To the Editor: Szamocki and Shah-Desai described a Mullerectomy procedure with skin crease preservation, which they advocated because of their good results and faster healing time, compared with a Mullerectomy with skin resection. When I first described the Muller muscle conjunctival resection ptosis procedure, it was also done without any s...

purpose: to report a case of metastatic tumor to the right upper eyelid originating from a lung adenocarcinoma without any systemic signs. case report: a 68-year-old man had a two-month history of painless swelling in the right upper eyelid. the tumor slowly grew. two years before his presentation, he had received chemotherapy for lung cancer for one year. systemic and ocular examinations were ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate functional and aesthetic results of periorbital defect repair using forehead flaps. DESIGN Retrospective review of patients who received periorbital defect repair by 3 of us with a paramedian forehead flap alone or in conjunction with other local or regional flaps, bone grafts, or cartilage grafts. Flap survival, functional results, and postoperative complications were d...