title: [The myectomy of the small oblique muscle with a thread operation on the rectus superior muscle on the eye with ptosis (author's transl)].
abstract: Cuppers and Thomas, in 1975, imagined that in the presence of unilateral ptosis with paresis of the rectus superior muscle only, on this side, it was advisible to place a thread on the rectus superior adelphi muscle, in order to expect an improvement, even a recovery from ptosis, by provoking an elevation impulse of the levator muscle and of the rectus superior muscle on the eye with ptosis. The first four operations were unsuccessful. On the order hand, during the fifth operation, we were led, in addition to placing the thread, to procede on the same side, to a myectomy of the small oblique muscle. The result was excellent. Two more cases of ptosis operated in the same way have been healed too. We publish here the detailed case reports, we have tried to explain them, and to specify their indications.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000550:Amblyopia / Q000517:prevention & control; D001763:Blepharoptosis / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles / Q000601:surgery*; D013285:Strabismus / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Intérêt de la myectomie du petit oblique associée à l'opération du fil sur le droit supérieur dans la cure de certains ptosis unilatéraux.