PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Rohit Saxena
AU  - Medha Sharma
AU  - Digvijay Singh
AU  - Pradeep Sharma
TI  - Full tendon medial transposition of lateral rectus with augmentation sutures in cases of complete third nerve palsy
AID  - 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2017-311376
DP  - 2018 Jun 01
TA  - British Journal of Ophthalmology
PG  - 715--717
VI  - 102
IP  - 6
4099  - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/102/6/715.short
4100  - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/102/6/715.full
SO  - Br J Ophthalmol2018 Jun 01; 102
AB  - Management options in third nerve palsy are limited as four of the six extraocular muscles are involved. Surgery has to be tailored on a case-to-case basis. Aim of this retrospective case series is to report 1-year outcomes of a modified surgical technique entailing full tendon transposition of lateral rectus to medial rectus augmented with posterior fixation sutures in four patients with complete third nerve palsy. All four cases showed significant improvement of vertical and horizontal deviation with long-term stability of correction. Choice of route of full tendon augmented transposition of lateral rectus to medial rectus can aid in achieving good correction of the vertical misalignment in addition to horizontal correction.