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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-8-1
pubmed:abstractText
Temporal muscle transfer (n = 78) and lid loading with a gold plate (n = 52) were compared in the treatment of paralytic lagophthalmos. Three sizes of gold plate (1.0, 1.2 and 1.4 g) were used. Lid loading was inferior to temporal muscle transfer in improving functional ability to close the eye, but it did protect the cornea from irritation. There were no significant differences among the sizes of plate, but there was most relief from corneal irritation when the 1.4 g gold plate was used. The plate had to be removed in 25% of the patients, but this did not make the condition worse than before lid loading. Lid loading has the advantage that patients can close their eyes without conscious effort. We therefore recommend lid loading as the first choice for correction of paralytic lagophthalmos, and that temporal muscle transfer should be undertaken after plate removal in only those patients for whom lid loading has not given a satisfactory result.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0284-4311
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
29
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
45-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:7597389-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:7597389-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:7597389-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:7597389-Blinking, pubmed-meshheading:7597389-Child, pubmed-meshheading:7597389-Corneal Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:7597389-Equipment Design, pubmed-meshheading:7597389-Esthetics, pubmed-meshheading:7597389-Eyelid Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:7597389-Eyelids, pubmed-meshheading:7597389-Facial Paralysis, pubmed-meshheading:7597389-Female, pubmed-meshheading:7597389-Follow-Up Studies, pubmed-meshheading:7597389-Gold, pubmed-meshheading:7597389-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:7597389-Male, pubmed-meshheading:7597389-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:7597389-Prostheses and Implants, pubmed-meshheading:7597389-Retrospective Studies, pubmed-meshheading:7597389-Surface Properties, pubmed-meshheading:7597389-Temporal Muscle
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
A comparison of temporal muscle transfer and lid loading in the treatment of paralytic lagophthalmos.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Tokyo, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study