title: Strabismus surgery on the nonamblyopic eye.
abstract: To date most surgeons operate only on the nonamblyopic eye in patients with strabismus and amblyopia with unpredictable, initial, surgical results. We present a series of 13 patients with amblyopia and strabismus plus anomalous head positions who underwent surgery on their nonamblyopic eye. The good, initial, surgical results in 77% of these patients suggest that operating on the good eye is important to dictate the final surgical results in correcting the deviation and normalizing the head position.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gonzalez
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Jaros
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000550:Amblyopia / Q000150:complications*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006257:Head; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011187:Posture; D013285:Strabismus / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*