title: [Upper eyelid surgery for treatment of congenital blepharoptosis].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  [corrected] To revise techniques and indications for surgical treatment of childhood blepharoptosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  Review of the medical literature and case reports.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The treatment of blepharoptosis is not easy. There are different techniques for its correction, depending on invasivity and aetiological approach. Most used techniques are resection of the levator muscle through a skin incision in moderate ptosis and frontal suspension for severe cases. The indication of each technique depends on the type of ptosis, severity, features of levator muscle and age.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Simple congenital ptosis is the most frequent type of ptosis in children although is necessary to consider types associated to rectus superior palsy, blepharofimosis syndrome and Marcus-Gunn phenomenon. It is important to evaluate ptosis severity and its repercussions on visual acuity and compensating torticolli. The timing for surgical treatment varies depending on age, severity and laterality.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Oftalmología, Hospital Universitari Bellvitge, Barcelona. jcarlosmesa@mixmail.com
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Mesa Gutiérrez
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mascaró Zamora
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Muñoz Quiñones
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Prat Bertomeu
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Arruga Ginebreda
mesh_terms: D019882:Blepharoplasty; D001763:Blepharoptosis / Q000151:congenital* / Q000601:surgery*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans