Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Surgical repair of large eyelid defect in a young cat
By Esson, D·Published in Veterinary ophthalmology·2001·Beaumont Veterinary Hospital, United Kingdom·View original on PubMed →
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Original publication title: A modification of the Mustardé technique for the surgical repair of a large feline eyelid coloboma.
- Species:
- cat
Plain-English summary
A one-year-old male domestic short-haired cat had developed a painful eye condition called keratitis due to a large eyelid defect known as coloboma. To fix this, the veterinarian used a new three-step surgical technique that involved reconstructing the upper eyelid using tissue from the lower eyelid and then covering the lower eyelid with a graft taken from the cat's upper lip. The surgery was successful, and the cat ended up with good function and appearance of the eyelids after recovery.
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Abstract
A one-year-old male domestic short haired cat was referred because of an area of keratitis that had developed adjacent to a particularly large unilateral eyelid coloboma. The defect was repaired using an undescribed three-stage surgical technique, which is essentially a combination of existing techniques and consists of using the lower lid to re-construct the upper lid and replacing the resultant lower lid defect with a full thickness graft from the upper lip. This technique is described and the results illustrated by photographs. A good functional and cosmetic result was achieved.
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Search related cases →Original publication on PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11422999/