Table 2.

Other reports of the results of surgery for correcting aponeurotic ptosis

Author	Year	Criteria used, difference and range	Timing of determination	No. meeting criteria	No. done	% meeting criteria
Anderson et al2	1979	1.0 mm		10	12	83.3
Older12	1983	1.0 mm		108	113	95.6
Putterman et al11	1986	1.5 mm		192	213	90.1
		(1.0 mm)		177	213	83.1
		(0.5 mm)		137	213	64.3
Berlin et al10	1989	1.0 mm and 2–4.5 mm	6 weeks	62	87	71.3
			Long term, up to 6.7 mo	47	87	54.0
Shore et al12	1990	1.0 mm and ≥ 3mm for bilat		178	207	89.5
Doxanas9	1992	1.0 mm		86	92	93.5
Liu4	1993	1.0 mm		162	169	95.9
Bartley et al8	1996	1.0 mm		11	17	64.7
Lucarelli et al6	1999	1.0 mm		25	28	89.3
Meltzer et al5	2001	0.5 mm		46	51	89.3
McCulley et al7*	2003	1.0 mm and 2–4.5 mm		Unilateral	404	77.0
				Bilateral	399	76.0

^*The success rates for McCulley and coworkers are estimates with a range, so no numbers meeting criteria are given.