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| CASE REPORT |
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| Year : 1990 | Volume
: 36
| Issue : 2 | Page : 115-6,116A,116B |
Management of a case of lagophthalmos by Gillies' method (a case report).
R Mukherjee, S Dasgupta, DS Ladi, VH Gandhi
Department of Ophthalmology, Dr R. N. Cooper Hospital, Bombay, Maharashtra.
Correspondence Address:
R Mukherjee
Department of Ophthalmology, Dr R. N. Cooper Hospital, Bombay, Maharashtra.
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PMID: 0002097367 
A case of facial palsy with lagophthalmos with exposure keratitis was corrected surgically by a method of temporalis transfer. When the slings were tightened leaving 1 cm gap in the palpebral aperture, lagophthalmos persisted. A secondary tightening procedure causing overlap of the upper lid over the lower yielded good results.
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