|
KMID : 0358819820090030389
|
|
Journal of Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons
1982 Volume.9 No. 3 p.389 ~ p.393
|
|
|
A CASE OF UPPER EYELID RECONSTRUCTION USING LOWER LID SWITCH FLAP
|
|
Jung Yong-Hui
Kim Sung-Soo
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
The eyelids have an important function of protecting cornea, and thus maintaining visual acuity. Any defects of eyelids requires an immediate reconstruction to protect cornea and preserve visual acuity. Upper eyelid has a more important in functional aspect than its lower counterpart. Moreover, reconstruction of upper eyelid is a relatively difficult according to the severity of defect.
This article deals with a case of basal cell carcinoma of right upper eyelid which was treated with successful outcome at department of plastic surgery. The patient was female, 62 years of age and had a basal cell carcinoma of right upper eyelid of 5 years’ duration, which involved about four-fifths of right upper eyelid in transverse diameter and tarsal plate in its nearly entire depth longitudinally. We resected the entire cancer mass and reconstructed upper eyelid defect using switch flap of lower eyelid and the defect in lower eyelid was reconstructed with a composite graft of nasal septal cartilage.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
  
|