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Transposition of plicated horizontal muscles

Shah PR, Pihlblad MS

Journal of AAPOS : the official publication of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, 2020

Abstract

Various surgical techniques exist for simultaneous correction of a strabismus with both horizontal and vertical components. Transposition of horizontal muscles is most commonly performed on recessed and resected muscles. We describe a novel surgical technique that combines horizontal rectus muscle plication with a vertical transposition and present a small case series in which the technique was used to successfully correct both horizontal and vertical deviations.

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