Periosteal pennant lateral canthoplasty.
A periosteal pennant method of primary lateral canthoplasty is described, and it effectively maintains surgical correction of the axis of the palpebral fissure and the position of the lateral canthus. In using it more than 50 times, we have not had to do a secondary correction.
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003394:Craniofacial Dysostosis / Q000601:surgery; D005143:Eyelids / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008342:Mandibulofacial Dysostosis / Q000601:surgery; D008722:Methods; D013518:Surgery, Plastic