IZAKI A., SHIMO-OKU M. Deparfment of Ophthalmology, Hyogo College of Medicine (Japan) Puroose : Blink reflexes evoked with comeal sensation or flash light stimulation are widely performed to examine optic, trigeminal and facial nerve. Both the electro-oculographic findings of lid movements and scleral search coil findings of eye movements during those blinks were investigated previously, we stu...

This study provides a comprehensive description of upper eyelid movement in normal human subjects. Using the magnetic search coil technique to monitor lid position and modified skin electrodes to record orbicularis oculi electromyographic (EMG) activity, the authors found that the basic eyelid movements, blinks, and saccadic lid movements, can be uniquely and reliably characterized by their amp...

IZAKI A., SHIMO-OKU M. Deparfment of Ophthalmology, Hyogo College of Medicine (Japan) Puroose : Blink reflexes evoked with comeal sensation or flash light stimulation are widely performed to examine optic, trigeminal and facial nerve. Both the electro-oculographic findings of lid movements and scleral search coil findings of eye movements during those blinks were investigated previously, we stu...

OBJECTIVE Anthropological studies divided the Japanese into the Yayoi migrants, who had narrow eye, no visible superior palpebral crease, and high-positioned round supraorbital margins for cold tolerance, and the Jomon natives, who had wide eye, visible superior palpebral crease, and low-positioned straight supraorbital margins, thus suggesting an anatomical discrepancy between the vertical pal...

introduction: aim of the study was to determine the efficacy of minor lateral tarsorrhaphy in conjunction with levator muscle recession in thyroid ophthalmopathic patients with severe lid retraction in order to correct the temporal flare in these patients methods: in a before-after clinical trial study, 22 eyelids of 12 patients with severe lid retraction underwent surgery by this method and th...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Epiblepharon is a congenital lid anomaly in which a fold of skin and underlying orbicularis muscle push the lashes against the eyeball. It is important to get a good lash eversion effect without forming a prominent lid crease in Asian patients. The surgical effect of this rotating suture technique was evaluated. METHODS Surgical correction for epiblepharon was performed on 197...

Ptosis has usually been treated by surgery and the literature contains suggestions of over eighty different operations for its correction. Duke-Elder (I952) has pointed out that, in spite of the variety and ingenuity of remedial operations, the results are by no means invariably brilliant and in cases due to neuromuscular disease shortening of the lid is usually unsatisfactory. Apart from the c...

The prime cause of corneal damage in exposure keratitis is desiccation. This results from failure of the lids to cover the cornea for either mechanical or neurological reasons. In such cases the application of a closely-fitting shield affords considerable protection because a pocket of humid air is trapped in front of the cornea. Several simple occlusive shields have been described utilizing su...

Eyelid bags and blepharochalasis are the result of relaxation of lid structures like the skin, the orbicularis oculi, and mainly the orbital septum. Therefore, this aged appearance cannot be improved sufficiently with only a skin and orbicularis oculi resection. To improve this appearance, we use a very effective method of tucking of the orbital septum with infraeyebrow excision of the skin and...