TENOTOMY OF THE SUPERIOR OBLIQUE MUSCLE FOR HYPERTROPIA
- 1 November 1947
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Ophthalmology (1950)
- Vol. 38 (5) , 605-644
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archopht.1947.00900010622003
Abstract
THE PURPOSE of this article is to describe a simple, effective and reliable surgical procedure for the cure of hypertropia associated with overaction of the superior oblique muscle. Hypertropia is due to weakness of one or more of the vertically acting extraocular muscles. This weakness may be acquired or congenital. It may be due to a structural weakness of the muscle itself, to an anomalous insertion of the muscle tendon or to abnormal innervation. Of 107 cases of congenital paralyses of the vertically acting extraocular muscles, Duane1found the superior rectus muscle affected in 58 (54 per cent), the inferior rectus muscle in 36 (33 per cent), the superior oblique muscle in 7 (7 per cent) and the inferior oblique muscle in 6 (6 per cent). In a critical analysis of 1,955 cases of anomalies of the extraocular muscles, White and Brown2found the vertically acting muscles affectedKeywords
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- Hyperphoria, its Etiology, Diagnosis and TreatmentAmerican Journal of Ophthalmology, 1931