PURPOSE To assess outcomes of levator resection for the surgical correction of congenital and acquired upper lid ptosis in patients with fair to good levator function and evaluation of the relationship between demographic data and success of this operation. METHODS In a retrospective study, medical records of patients with blepharoptosis who had undergone levator resection over a 10-year peri...

Figure 1. Preoperative photograph demonstrating severe ptosis on the right lid with levator function less than 5 mm (measured by blocking the action of the frontalis muscle). The patient is contracting his right frontalis muscle to keep his right eyelid open. Normal levator function is 11 mm.

Introduction: An abnormally drooping upper eyelid in comparison with the normal position primary gaze refers to ptosis. Levator resection should be procedure of choice patients moderate severe ptosis and a good levator function. Methods: In this retrospective study, we analysed surgical outcomes after large maximal function Bell’s phenomenon. All had function; therefore, was choice. We performe...

Seventeen patients with ptosis as a feature of chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia were managed in accordance with a new protocol. An anterior approach levator advancement was performed on seven patients (13 lids) with more than 4 mm of levator function and a brow suspension procedure on eight patients (14 lids) with minimal levator function, in whom the frontalis muscle was relatively...

Congenital cleft palate causes a serious obstacle to children with regard to language and eating function. The aim of the current study was to examine the clinical application of a type of palatoplasty that has a reduced impact on the maxillary growth and good function in velopharyngeal competence. A total of 37 patients with cleft palate were treated with levator veli palatini retropositioning...

RESECTION and advancement of the levator palpebrae superioris gives the best functional and cosmetic result of any ptosis operation. As a rule, operation on the levator is indicated if there is a degree of function in this muscle. Myasthenia gravis, the myopathies, jaw-winking, and related anomalies of innervation are the exceptions to this rule. Bowman was perhaps the first to attempt correcti...

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...