Temporal skin plastic surgery, a possible method for eyelid reconstruction
Faludi, J.; Bilkei, G.
Berliner und Munchener Tierarztliche Wochenschrift 114(1-2): 44-45
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 0005-9366 PMID: 11225497 Document Number: 529762
Eyelid reconstruction of large defects is a difficult undertaking in small animal surgery. Instead of performing the well known Roberts and Bistner or Cuttler and Beard methods, we have introduced the following method for eyelid correction in case of large lid defects. On the temporal part, laterally (about the width of the eye) from the eye an uneffected skin flap is identified, mobilized, rotated and placed into the missing part of the eyelid. Conjunctiva (with slow resorbing) and skin (with non resorbing) 1 metric material are separately adapted. In a large number of patients this method has been proven to be superior to the other methods mentioned.