Modified Fasanella-Servat for Acquired Ptosis: Case Report and Review of the Literature

A 28-year-old man who had acquired ptosis of his left upper eyelid after a traffic accident did not benefit from standard levator advancement surgery. Patient had significant ptosis with moderate levator function. A modified Fasanella-Servat procedure under local anesthesia resulted in the desired c...

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Autor principal: Chaudhry, Imtiaz A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2855669/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20404995
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.58415
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description A 28-year-old man who had acquired ptosis of his left upper eyelid after a traffic accident did not benefit from standard levator advancement surgery. Patient had significant ptosis with moderate levator function. A modified Fasanella-Servat procedure under local anesthesia resulted in the desired correction of his left upper eyelid ptosis. A review of the Fasanella-Servat procedure for ptosis surgery is presented, as well as its modifications, along with its limitations.
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spelling pubmed-28556692010-04-19 Modified Fasanella-Servat for Acquired Ptosis: Case Report and Review of the Literature Chaudhry, Imtiaz A Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol Case Report A 28-year-old man who had acquired ptosis of his left upper eyelid after a traffic accident did not benefit from standard levator advancement surgery. Patient had significant ptosis with moderate levator function. A modified Fasanella-Servat procedure under local anesthesia resulted in the desired correction of his left upper eyelid ptosis. A review of the Fasanella-Servat procedure for ptosis surgery is presented, as well as its modifications, along with its limitations. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2855669/ /pubmed/20404995 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.58415 Text en © Middle East African Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Modified Fasanella-Servat for Acquired Ptosis: Case Report and Review of the Literature
title Modified Fasanella-Servat for Acquired Ptosis: Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_full Modified Fasanella-Servat for Acquired Ptosis: Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_fullStr Modified Fasanella-Servat for Acquired Ptosis: Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_full_unstemmed Modified Fasanella-Servat for Acquired Ptosis: Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_short Modified Fasanella-Servat for Acquired Ptosis: Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_sort modified fasanella-servat for acquired ptosis: case report and review of the literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2855669/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20404995
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.58415
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