title: Surgery of dissociated vertical divergent strabismus.
abstract: In those cases where definite bilateral inferior oblique overaciton coexists and predominates, the initial procedure should be a maximum weakening operation of both inferior oblique muscles. For the remainder, surgical treatment should be reserved for the unsightly predominantly unilateral cases who do not wish to wait for the possible beneficial effects of age. With surgery on the vertical rectus muscles, particularly the inferior rectus, improvement of the deviation by two-thirds to three-quarters should be the aim of treatment.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D013285:Strabismus / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*