A method to correct the contracted socket.
In four patients, rotation of the inferior tarsus around the tarsal-tendon horizontal axis caused a contracted socket with loss of lower fornix and the inability to retain an artificial eye. Exposure of the lower border of the inferior tarsus through a skin incision, separating the tarsus from the overlying orbicularis oculi muscle, and suturing its lower margin to the skin corrected the abnormality.
D000853:Anophthalmos / Q000601:surgery; D003286:Contracture / Q000601:surgery; D062109:Dermatologic Surgical Procedures; D005137:Eye, Artificial; D005143:Eyelids / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery*; D013536:Suture Techniques