Congenitally malformed cystic eye, causing extensive protrusion of upper eyelid, and complete extrusion of conjunctival sac through the palpebral fissure / by S. Johnson Taylor and E. Treacher Collins.

  • Taylor, S. Johnson.
Date:
[1906]
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Credit: Congenitally malformed cystic eye, causing extensive protrusion of upper eyelid, and complete extrusion of conjunctival sac through the palpebral fissure / by S. Johnson Taylor and E. Treacher Collins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    removal, my object being, if possible, to get it out en masse. This I succeeded in doing by making an incision just through the skin all round close to the margins of the lids, then burrowing under and dissecting up the skin flaps until I could pass a pair of curved scissors well behind, and so separating all the connections, not a drop of the contents escaping. The child was very collapsed after the operation, and remained in a doubtful condition for some days, but ulti- Fio. 1. Shows the appearances of the cystic protrusion shortly before operatic mately recovered; and when seen last week was fat an well, the cut margins of the upper and lower lids having completely united. Pathological report hy E. Treacher Collins. The specimen consists of the contents of the right orbit, including the whole conjunctival sac and the margins of the eyelids.