Tendon resection and tendon contraction for shortening the recti muscles / by George T. Stevens.

  • George Thomas Stevens
Date:
[1889]
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Credit: Tendon resection and tendon contraction for shortening the recti muscles / by George T. Stevens. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Reprinted from the New York Medical Journal for March 30, 1889. ,ECTI MUSCLES. N CONTRACTION By GEORGE T. STEVENS, M. D. Sinck, in 1845, Guerin first made advancement of a rectus muscle with the view of re-establishing its action by virtue of the new position, many modifications of his opera- tion have been made, depending partly upon the progress made in the management of primary strabismus and partly upon the individuality of the surgeons who have proposed the various modifications. Principal among these newer methods are those of Critchett and von Graefe, but practical improvements upon the original methods and of those of Critchett and Graefe have been suggested and practiced by Weber, Agnew, Wecker and Landolt, Prince, and others. In all these modifications the purpose has been, by ad- vancing the insertion of the tendon nearer to the cornea, to effect a re-enforcement of its action in rotating the cornea toward the inner or outer cantbus. It is probable that nearly every surgeon who has had any considerable experience in these operations has learned that each of the methods which have from time to time been in vogue promises much better than it fulfills, and that failure in producing any exact results is the rule rather than the exception.
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