Mini-incisional entropion repair for correcting involutional entropion: Full description and surgical outcome.

ABSTRACT: The aim of the study was to report the surgical outcome of mini-incisional correction method to treat involutional entropion.This is a retrospective interventional case series of 46 eyelids in 31 patients with involutional entropion and significant ocular irritation. In this technique, after turning the lower eyelid inside out, threads are introduced into it through the conjunctiva close to the inferior fornix. The lower lid retractor and tarsus are then connected using threads. These threads are applied at 3 locations of the lower eyelid and tightening them results in the eyelid being everted and the correction of entropion. Surgical success was defined as no contact between the eyelashes and the globe during forced closure of the eyelids. Surgical failure was defined as persistence of th

SUBMITTER: Han J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6831266 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature