title: [Own experience with the use of adjustable sutures in various types of strabismus operations].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To present our results of operations in various types of strabismus conducted with the use of adjustable sutures.
  
  
  METHODS
  We studied 56 patients, both adolescents and adults, aged between 15 and 57 years operated due to strabismus in Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of Lódz. Adjustable strabismus sutures serve to improve the chance of achieving the desired surgical alignment with single operation and thereby decrease the need for staged operations or reoperations.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The surgery results were as follows: 60.8% excellent, 21.4 good, 14.3% fair, 3.3% poor. Five patients with various types of strabismus treated with the use of adjustable sutures were described. Adjustable sutures are a very good method for reoperation, in paretic strabismus, and also in adults when a good cosmetic result is desired after strabismus operation without the fear of diplopia.
authors.affiliation: Katedry i Kliniki Chorób Oczu, Poradni Leczenia Zeza AM w Lodzi.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Broniarczyk-Loba
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Nowakowska
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006111:Graves Disease / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013285:Strabismus / Q000601:surgery*; D013537:Sutures