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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Ophthalmol. 2017 Jul 4;182:1–7. doi: 10.1016/j.ajo.2017.06.030

Table 2.

1-Year Outcomes for One-Muscle and Two-Muscle Surgery for Presumed Unilateral Superior Oblique Palsy.

Motor Success (n=46) Diplopia Success (n=38)a
Success Under Over Success Partial Failure
One muscle (n=17) Overall 8 (47%) 9 (53%) 0 (0%) 5 (45%) 3 (27%) 3 (27%)
IO only (n=7) 4 (57%) 3 (43%) 0 (0%) 1 (25%) 1 (25%) 2 (50%)
SO only (n=8) 3 (38%) 5 (63%) 0 (0%) 3 (60%) 1 (20%) 1 (20%)
Rectus only (n=2) 1 (50%) 1 (50%) 0 (0%) 1 (50%) 1 (50%) 0 (0%)
Two muscles (n=29) Overall 16 (55%) 5 (17%) 8 (28%) 16 (59%) 4 (15%) 7 (26%)
IO+IR (n=17) 8 (47%) 3 (18%) 6 (35%) 9 (60%) 1 (7%) 5 (33%)
IR+SR (n=6) 3 (50%) 1 (17%) 2 (33%) 3 (50%) 2 (33%) 1 (17%)
SO+IR (n=5) 4 (80%) 1 (20%) 0 (0%) 3 (60%) 1 (20%) 1 (20%)
SR+SO (n=1) 1 (100%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 1 (100%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
a

For diplopia success and combined motor with diplopia success, 11 subjects with one-muscle surgery and 27 subjects with two-muscle surgery were available for analysis.