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Research in the area of strabismus reported from Walton Hospital, Department of Ophthalmology

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, March 2nd, 2007

New research, "Adjustment of the surgical nomogram for surgery on slipped extraocular muscles," is the subject of a report. "A slipped muscle is an underdiagnosed complication of strabismus surgery. Surgery necessitates intraoperative diagnosis, measurement, and resection of the empty sheath," scientists writing in the Journal of AAPOS report.

"We analyzed the results of empty sheath surgery for slipped medial and lateral rectus muscles in a large cohort of patients. Eighty-five patients who underwent empty sheath surgery at a secondary referral center by a single strabismologist were included in the study. We retrospectively analyzed the preoperative and...

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