Abstract
Reference is here made to advancement of tendons as distinguished from tendon resection or tendon shortening. In the latter two, the stump of the partially severed tendon furnishes the point of attachment of the portion to be brought forward. Not so, however, in tendon advancement. This operation is required as a remedy for strabismus, insufficiencies, and for the results of old operations excessive in their effects. Tendon retroplacement is here recommended as a control procedure, in connection with complete tenotomy, and is to be practiced at the time and as a part of the original operation. It may as well be said at once that in the opinion of the writer, the operation for tendon advancement, as described by Stevens and performed with the singularly delicate instruments which he has given us, may be substituted with advantage for all other operations heretofore described. The small conjunctival opening with its minimum
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