title: [Surgical treatment of congenital anophthalmia].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigates the surgical treatment for congenital anophthalmia.
  
  
  METHODS
  The operation was performed in two steps. At first, the orbit was enlarged and the tarsus was reconstructed with cartilage transplantation. At the second step, blepharoptosis was corrected with levator shortening or frontalis muscle suspension.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Five cases have been treated successfully with this method and satisfactory results were obtained.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Orbit amplification and tarsus reconstruction along with ptosis correction is an effective treatment for anophthalmia both aesthetically and functionally.
authors.affiliation: 98th Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Huzhou 313000, China.
authors.forename: Jia-ping
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Mao-ji
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Cai
mesh_terms: D000853:Anophthalmos / Q000601:surgery*; D019882:Blepharoplasty; D001763:Blepharoptosis / Q000151:congenital / Q000601:surgery*; D002356:Cartilage / Q000637:transplantation; D005152:Facial Muscles / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles / Q000601:surgery; D009915:Orbit / Q000601:surgery; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D016896:Treatment Outcome