Surgical treatment of congenital blepharophimosis syndrome and long-term follow-up / 中华医学美学美容杂志

ABSTRACT

ObjectiveTo summarize long-term effects of different op eration methods to cure congenital blepharophimosis syndrome in the past twenty years. MethodsIn the past twenty years, according to the clini cal features of 74 cases of congenital blepharophimosis syndrome,we adopted one -stage or two-stage technique to do the medial and lateral canthoplasty and/or to correct blepharoptosis. 24 patients accepted post-operative follow-up as l ong as 9 years. ResultsGenerally, Mustrarde technique was adop ted to correct inverse epicanthus for 54 cases, but for 20 patients with mild ep icanthus we adopted other methods. When enlarging the medial canthus, we selecti vely shortened the medial canthal ligament for 36 patients. When transverse tens ion on the upper eyelids was not increased, 33 cases selected one-stage techniq ue to correct this syndrome and obtained the same effects as two-stage techniqu e did for the other 41 cases. Other combined deformations of the patients should be treated in adolescence according to the patients' requirements. ConclusionBy adopting one-stage or two-stage technique to perform the medial and lateral canthoplasty and/or to correct blepharophimosis for con genital blepharophimosis syndrome can reach the satisfactory results if a correc t indication is selected.