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Freitag, Suzanne K. et al.: 2020 Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery DOI: 10.1055/b-0039-173364
Part VIII Orbit Surgery

37 Anterior Orbitotomy

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Editors: Freitag, Suzanne K.; Lee, N. Grace; Lefebvre, Daniel R.; Yoon, Michael K.

Authors: Aakalu, Vinay K.; Armstrong, Blair K.; Barmettler, Anne; Barsegian, Arpine; Bergman, Mica Y; Bi, Wenya Linda; Bleier, Benjamin S.; Bonafede, Lucas; Callahan, Alison; Campbell, Ashley A.; Chambers, Christopher B.; Charlson, Emily; Chang, Shu-Hong (Holly); Choe, Christina H.; Choi, Catherine J.; Cohen, Liza M.; Dajani, Omar; DeParis, Sarah W.; Dunbar, Kristen E.; Dunn, Ian F.; Eftekhari, Kian; Elliott, Alexandra T.; Fu, Roxana; Giacometti, Joseph; Glass, Lora R. Dagi; Godfrey, Kyle J.; Gonzalez, Mithra O.; Grob, Seanna; Habib, Larissa H.; Homer, Natalie; Jalaj, Sanjai; Jiménez-Pérez, Juan C.; Lee, Bradford W.; Lelli, Gary J.; Liao, Shu Lang; Liu, Catherine Y.; Liu, Honglei; MacIntosh, Peter W.; Mahoney, Nicholas; Mantagos, Jason S.; Mehta, Sonul; Migliori, Michael E.; Mueller, Sarina K.; Nguyen, Tieu Vy; Oatts, Julius T.; Olvera-Morales, Osiris; Pham, Chau; Rok, Do Eon; Servat, Javier; Setabutr, Pete; Shah, Neil; Shinder, Roman; Siegal, Nora K.; Simmons, Brittany A.; Starks, Victoria; Tao, Jeremiah P.; Teo, Livia; Tovilla-Canales, José Luis; Tran, Ann Q.; Tseng, Michael; Weber, Adam; Winn, Bryan J.; Wladis, Edward J.; Wolkow, Natalie; Yadav, Prashant; Yen, Michael T.; Yuen, Hunter; Zhan, Senmiao; Zhang-Nunes, Sandy

Title: Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery

Subtitle: Tricks of the Trade

Print ISBN: 9781626238978; Online ISBN: 9781626238985; Book DOI: 10.1055/b-006-163725

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Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart

Subjects: Ophthalmology, Optometry;Plastic, Reconstructive and Cosmetic Surgery

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Catherine Y. Liu and Vinay K. Aakalu

Summary

An anterior orbitotomy is a broad term to indicate entry into the orbit, generally to the orbit anterior to the equator of the globe. A multitude of techniques are available, and the ones discussed here are extensions of commonly used incisions fundamental to oculofacial plastic surgery. Access to the posterior orbit can be achieved with modification of the described techniques. In this chapter, we organize approaches based on location of the orbit: superior, inferior, lateral, and medial.

Key words

anterior orbitotomy - lid crease incision - lid split - subbrow incision - Lynch incision - subciliary incision - transconjunctival incision - transcaruncular approach - subconjunctival space - swinging eyelid