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Selection of Operation, Operative Techniques, Complications

CARL CORDES JOHNSON, M.D.

Arch Ophthalmol. 1962;67(1):18-34.

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Operative Techniques

1. Levator Resection.

—One should be able to do at least 1 operation in each of the 3 general categories, and, of course, levator resection has by far the widest application in ptosis surgery. The more one does ptosis surgery, the more one realizes this. Nevertheless, there are cases in which levator resections are definitely not as good as one of the other procedures. Most ophthalmic surgeons, I am sure, will agree that when there is some levator function, levator resection is certainly the operation of choice. The operation which I have been doing since 1942, and which has previously been described,¹ is based upon that described by de Lapersonne.⁶

Eversbusch's name is frequently used in speaking of levator resections done through the skin surface. However, the operation he described was a tucking of the levator.⁷

A Blascovics operation⁸ and its modifications^9,10 are . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Boston

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication June 6, 1961.

Candidate's Thesis—American Ophthalmological Society.

This article is continued from the December issue of the Archives.

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