Abstract
<strong>PICO question</strong><br /><p>In dogs undergoing surgery for repair of a prolapsed gland of the third eyelid (cherry eye), is a pocket technique superior to an anchoring technique in preventing recurrence?</p><strong>Clinical bottom line</strong><br /><p>For surgical treatment of a prolapsed gland of the third eyelid (cherry eye), there is currently no evidence to suggest that either an anchoring technique or a pocket technique is significantly better than the other when comparing recurrence rates. In practice, and until randomised controlled trials are carried out, veterinary surgeon preference and previous experience would be the relevant factors in choosing which operation to perform.</p><br /> <img src="https://www.veterinaryevidence.org/rcvskmod/icons/oa-icon.jpg" alt="Open Access" /> <img src="https://www.veterinaryevidence.org/rcvskmod/icons/pr-icon.jpg" alt="Peer Reviewed" />
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A Knowledge Summary by Jim Connah BVSc MANZCVS1In dogs undergoing surgery for repair of a prolapsed gland of the third eyelid (cherry eye), is a pocket technique superior to an anchoring technique in preventing recurrence?
1/17 prolapses recurred with the pocket technique
Whilst cohort studies generally appear higher in the hierarchy of evidence based veterinary medicine, the two included in this Knowledge Summary (Lin & Lin, (2003); Gupta et al, (2016)) suffered from having no control groups
Summary
In dogs undergoing surgery for repair of a prolapsed gland of the third eyelid (cherry eye), is a pocket technique superior to an anchoring technique in preventing recurrence?. For surgical treatment of a prolapsed gland of the third eyelid (cherry eye), there is currently no evidence to suggest that either an anchoring technique or a pocket technique is significantly better than the other when comparing recurrence rates. Whilst all the cited studies compared techniques, and reported excellent outcomes for both, only one (Multari et al, 2016) conducted any statistical analysis. This latter article did not show any significant difference in rates of recurrence. By comparing a pocket technique with a pocket plus anchor technique
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