InternationalJournalofOphthalmology,V01.6,No.5,Oct.2006Tel:029—82245172EmaihIJO.2000@163.comwww.IJO.ca·Originalarticle·ClinicalcharacteristicsandsurgicalmanagementinA-patternexotropiaAbstract
AIM:T0surveythepathogenesis.clinicaIcharacterist:icsandsurgicaltreatmentforthecorrectionofA-patternex-otropia.
M日rHODS:ThecasehistoryandsurgicaleffeCtof62A—pat-ternexotropiain1825strabismuswerestudied.Thesuperiorobliquemusclesweakeningorthehorizontalmusclesproce-dureswereperformedinallpatientsaccordingtothedysfunc-tionofthesuperiorobliquemuscles,horizontaIdeviation,withorwithoutbinocularvision.Follow—uDaftersurgerywas6-18monthswithmeandurationof9months.
RESULTs:A-patternexotropiaaccountsfor3.4%ofalIstra-bismus.A-patternexotropiaaccountsfor21.2%ofA-Vsyn-drome.Aftersurgery,52oasesgotalignment,56oasesgai