Extraocular muscle recession with a suture loop in dogs.
Extraocular muscle recessions with loops of silk suture were performed in 10 dogs. When, after a 5-mm section of the medial rectus muscle was resected, suture loops 5 mm long were inserted near the functional equator (8 mm behind the muscle's original insertion) an effective pseudotendon was produced in 71% of the eyes. This procedure may be a useful addition to the surgical methods of correcting horizontal strabismus.
D000818:Animals; D004285:Dogs; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D013285:Strabismus / Q000601:surgery*; D013536:Suture Techniques / Q000592:standards*