The medical records of 23 dogs that underwent medial canthoplasty for treatment of epiphora were reviewed. The most prevalent breed encountered was the shih tzu. Other affected breeds included the Pekingese, Maltese, toy poodle, and pug. All dogs had epiphora associated with medial canthal trichiasis and/or entropion. Other ocular abnormalities included conjunctivitis, keratitis, pigmentary ker...

Enfant âgée de 2 ans et demi, emmené par ses parents pour prise en charge d'un entropion congénital bilatéral isolé (A). L'examen ophtalmologique n'a pas noté d'ulcération cornéenne au niveau des deux yeux. Notre technique chirurgicale était simple par trois points de sutures en U au niveau du pli palpébral inférieur (B et C), réalisés sous anesthésie générale, avec un bon résultat fonctionnel ...

Butler (I 948) described a simple operation for entropion; a triangular piece of tarsal plate and conjunctiva, base down and apex almost at the lid margin, was removed with blunttipped scissors "to avoid damage to the muscle fibers" (of orbicularis oculi). Kwitko (i 964) described a very similar procedure. The operation reported here has been in use at the Sussex Eye Hospital, Brighton, for som...

PURPOSE To report the clinical and histopathologic findings of a patient with sarcoidosis causing bilateral destruction of the lower eyelids. METHODS Case report. RESULTS Bilateral destructive lower eyelid lesions and cicatricial entropion developed in a 43-year-old man with systemic sarcoidosis. Histopathology was consistent with sarcoid granulomas. Disease progression was arrested with sy...

This study describes a technique for correcting entropion based on the case of a female patient who had that alteration in the left lower eyelid, in addition to sagging and fat pseudo-herniation in the left and right eyelid areas. Bilateral upper and lower blepharoplasty was performed, with wedge resection of the orbicularis muscle and tarsus in both lower eyelids, followed by reconstruction. T...

p askovics' operation described fully in Torok and trout's Surgery of the Eye, an operation designed and eminently suited for the extreme degree of entropion found in the late stages of trachoma. With due deference to the author I may state that aesthetics P'ay little or no part in the gross deformity found ln these cases, a feature not brought out in the otherwise very excellent diagrams of th...

BACKGROUND To let experts evaluate a single surgeon's experience with a combined transconjunctival and intraoral upper vestibular approach in the repair of zygomatic fractures encountered in 46 East Asian patients whom he treated over the past 20 years. METHODS Patients were identified from a database, and a retrospective case note review was conducted. A total of 67 conjunctival and secondar...