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Lateral canthal tendon tuck.

A J Schaefer
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Abstract

Senile and involutional entropion is occasionally associated with a marked relaxation of the canthal tendons. A simple adjunctive procedure to the imbrication of the lower lid retractors for the correction of senile entropion is described. This adjunctive procedure--the lateral canthal tendon tuck--should further reduce the remarkably low recurrence rate associated with the imbrication surgical procedure that directly corrects the pathophysiology of senile entropion.

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A J Schaefer. 1979. Lateral canthal tendon tuck.. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0161-6420(79)35342-8

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