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Scleral penetration with a suture needle is a well recognised risk of the surgical treatment of strabismus and may result in serious intra-ocular complications. The risk should be reduced by loop recession, a procedure derived from the adjustable suture technique. In practice in many cases this operation has also been found to have other advantages compared to a conventional recession. The surgical details of loop recession are described and the results obtained in 62 patients reviewed.
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Presented at the Annual Congress of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, April 1987.
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Mills, P., Hyper, T. & Duff, G. Loop recession of the recti muscles. Eye 1, 593–596 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.1987.91
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