Ectropion : a case of ectropion successfully treated by transplantation of skin from the arm / by Louis H. Tosswill.

  • Tosswill, Louis Henry.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Ectropion : a case of ectropion successfully treated by transplantation of skin from the arm / by Louis H. Tosswill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    made an incision parallel with the edge of the left upper lid, as shown by the row of lashes mentioned before, and about a quarter of an 1 inch above it, and dissected the remains of the lid well down over the eyeball, I then made a similar incision just below the edge of the lower lid, as evidenced by the lashes grow- ing from the cheek, and dissected up the remains of the lid, until the two Kds thus formed could be easily approximated, leaving a large raw surface above and below the eye, from which the bleeding was so free that one or two small arteries had to be twisted. I then pared slightly the edge of each lid, and united them with two or three strong silk sutures; next I cut ofE from his right arm, with a sharp triangular knife, a semicircular ■ piece of integument, about two and a quarter: inches in, length, by one and an eighth in i breadth, carefully cleaned it from all areolar i tissue and fat, and secured it in the gap above: the eye by means of four fine silk sutures. ! The flap for the raw surface beneath the eyei was obtained from the forearm, and was about' two-thirds as large as the flap from the ann.ii