Expanded Applications for Transconjunctival Lower Lid Blepharoplasty
| Autor: | Jeffrey I. Resnick, Harvey A. Zarem |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
| Předmět: |
Blepharoplasty
Adult medicine.medical_specialty medicine.medical_treatment medicine Humans Transconjunctival approach Lower lid retraction Surgery Plastic Orbital septum Aged integumentary system business.industry Follow up studies Eyelids Middle Aged Surgery.plastic eye diseases Surgery medicine.anatomical_structure Adipose Tissue Female sense organs Eyelid business Conjunctiva Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 103:1041-1043 |
| ISSN: | 0032-1052 |
| Popis: | There has been a recent upsurge in interest in the transconjunctival approach for lower lid blepharoplasty. Initial reports have focused on the young patient with isolated fat prominence. We describe our experience with transconjunctival lower lid blepharoplasty in 104 patients over the past 2 years. There have been no instances of prolonged lower lid retraction problems, presumably related to leaving the skin, orbicularis, and orbital septum intact. Our experience with expanding the indications for the transconjunctival approach to include patients with fine skin wrinkling as well as frank skin excess has been extremely favorable. We conclude that the skin excess is often more apparent than real, with the skin being necessary to recontour the lower eyelid after fat excision. Although skin excision may be required during the initial procedure or at a later stage, patients with apparent skin excess need not be excluded from consideration for transconjunctival lower lid blepharoplasty. |
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