title: Subciliary incision and skin-muscle eyelid flap for orbital fractures.
abstract: The lower eyelid skin-muscle flap is now widely used for cosmetic blepharoplasty, primarily because of the ease and speed of dissection it offers. We have used the same technique as a surgical approach in fractures of the orbital floor and rim. In a large clinical series seen over a three and a half-year period, no major complications were noted. This approach provides simple, extremely rapid exposure of the injured area and is an excellent alternative to other approaches to this site.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001705:Bioprosthesis; D005143:Eyelids / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D009915:Orbit; D009917:Orbital Fractures / Q000601:surgery*; D012887:Skull Fractures / Q000601:surgery*; D013524:Surgical Flaps