title: Check ligaments: surgical effects in infantile esotropia.
abstract: In a prospective randomized study, we compared the results of surgical treatment of 25 patients with infantile esotropia, using bilateral medial rectus muscle recession of a graded amount without severing the check ligaments, to results obtained with a similar group of 23 patients in whom check ligaments were severed at the time of bimedial surgery. No significant difference could be found in the immediate postoperative and 6-month postoperative ocular alignment of the two groups.
mesh_terms: D001368:Axis, Cervical Vertebra; D004948:Esotropia / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008022:Ligaments / Q000601:surgery*; D008722:Methods; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles / Q000601:surgery*; D009809:Odontoid Process; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013285:Strabismus / Q000601:surgery*