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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus. 2012 Nov 20;50(1):44–52. doi: 10.3928/01913913-20121113-01

TABLE 5.

Overall Success with one Surgery According to Procedure Performed

Procedure Number (%) of Successful Results
SO Tuck (n=3) 1(33%)
IO Recession (n=4) 0
IO Recession/SR Recession (n=8) 4 (38%)
IO Recession/IR Recession (n=20) 13 (65%)
IO Recession/IR Recession/Harado Ito (n=5) 3 (60%)
Other multiple muscle combination (n=5) 2 (40%)

SO= superior oblique, IO= inferior oblique, SR= superior rectus, IR= inferior rectus

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Multiple muscle combinations included superior oblique tuck and contralateral inferior rectus recession; superior oblique tuck and inferior oblique recession; superior oblique tuck, contralateral inferior rectus recession, and ipsilateral superior rectus recession; superior oblique tuck, inferior oblique recession and ipsilateral superior rectus recession; inferior oblique recession, ipsilateral superior rectus recession and contralateral inferior rectus recession.

Success criteria included (1) correction of the anomalous head posture, (2) primary position alignment between orthotropic and 6 PD of undercorrection, and (3) no reoperation required for residual deviations in any direction of gaze.