J Korean Ophthalmol Soc.  1996 Sep;37(9):1513-1520.

Surgical Result of Unilateral Medial Retus Recession and Lateral Retus Resection in Esotropia

• Joo JD
• Lee JH

Abstract

To determine the effectiveness of unilateral medical rectus recession and lateral rectus resection in esotropia, surgical outcome was reviewed. We excluded paralytic strabismus, refractive esotropia and nonrefractive esotropia with high AC/A. Of 128 cases, 60 cases were male, 68 cases were female. At the amount of surgery, age distribution was from 11 month to 55 years. Preoperative angle of deviation was from 12 delta to 95 delta. We treated the patients with varying amount of unilateral medial rectus recession from 2.5mm to 8mm and unilateral lateral rectus resection from 2.5mm to 10mm. Following 31 months in average, 102(79.69%) showed successful alignment(orthporia +/-10 delta). The average amount of correction amount was 30.42 delta.

Keyword

Amount of correction; Esotropia; Lateral rectus resection; Medial rectus rescession

MeSH Terms

Age Distribution
Esotropia*
Female
Humans
Male
Strabismus