Strabismus fixus is very rare and the convergent form is rarely accompanied by blepharoptosis. We successfully treated one patient with high myopia whose convergent strabismus fixus, accompanied by blepharoptosis, became severe after cataract surgery. We report the case with a discussion of its pathology. We performed levator advancement operation, bilateral lateral rectus 11 mm resection, and ...

PURPOSE To quantify the fat in the levator muscle of patients with congenital ptosis, as related to clinical and epidemiological aspects of this disease. METHODS Twenty-two levator muscle samples of the superior eyelid from patients with congenital ptosis were morphometrically evaluated with aim of establishing a relationship between the fat quantity and age, sex, ptosis degree and levator mu...

of elevation, fixation was eccentric, and there were nystagmoid movements in this eye. There was slight ptosis, the left interpalpebral fissure being 9 mm. at its highest point and the right 10 mm. The action of the levator palpebrae superioris was good. There was marked secondary contracture of the inferior rectus muscle. Operative intervention was carried out in two stages with a five-week in...

The Miles operation is every day more in the limelight. The abdominoperineal resection compared to anterior resection results in increased rate of circumferential resection margin (CRM) infiltration, increased iatrogenic tumor perforation rate and poorer quality of the mesorectum. These worse results may be caused by excessive dissection between the distal mesorectum and the plane of the levato...

OBJECTIVE The study was undertaken to identify the morphologic changes in the levator ani in different grades of prolapse by using reconstructed three-dimensional models of magnetic resonance images (MRI) and to subclassify prolapse into different categories on the basis of their levator ani morphologic characteristics. STUDY DESIGN Sixty-one women were studied, 8 women in stage I, 15 women i...

PURPOSE To define the normal CT anatomy of the levator scapulae muscle and to report on a series of five patients who presented with a palpable mass in the posterior triangle due to asymmetry of the levator scapulae muscles. PATIENTS AND METHODS The contrast-enhanced CT examinations of the neck in 25 patients without palpable masses were reviewed to establish the normal CT appearance of the l...

OBJECTIVE We investigated the clinical anatomy of the levator ani nerve and its topographical relationship with the pudendal nerve. METHODS Ten female pelves were dissected and a pudendal nerve blockade was simulated. The course of the levator ani nerve and pudendal nerve was described quantitatively. The anatomical data were verified using (immuno-)histochemically stained sections of human f...

Abstract Traditionally, adult intestinal intussusception is treated using Hutchinson’s maneuver, i.e., manual proximal bowel compression and reduction of intussusception. However, the lack contact in laparoscopic surgery limits application maneuver. Moreover, when lead point located distal to peritoneal refection, cannot be reduced prior resection, stoma construction (e.g., Hartmann or abdomino...