METHOD OF PARTIAL CONSTANT CANTHOPLASTY OF MEDIAL ANGLE OF EYE FISSURE Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC A61F9/07 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely ophthalmology and may be applied for elimination of lagophthalmos and aims at higher effectiveness of a surgery for elimination of paralytic lagophthalmos. Upper and lower eyelids are vertically incised at lachrymal points. A conic probe is introduced in lachrymal ducts. The upper and lower eyelids are split along an intermarginal border from the lachrymal point of one eyelid to the lachrymal point of the other one. "П"-sutures are used to suture together internal and external eyelids sequentially. Intramarginal eyelid splitting does not cover the lachrymal ducts due to the introduction of the conic probe into the lachrymal ducts; the probe which is transparent through the eye borders is a splitting guide that eliminated lachrymal duct injury.

EFFECT: method enables repairing the normal position of the eyelids and closure of the eye fissure, recovering lachrymal outflow, avoiding recurrent dry eye syndrome, reducing surgical injuries, probability of secondary lagophthalmos.

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