Surgery for lower eyelid epiblepharon in children: a multi-center randomized controlled trial.
- Conditions
- lower eyelid epiblepharon
- Registration Number
- JPRN-UMIN000027321
- Lead Sponsor
- Yokohama City University Department of Ophthalmology
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete: follow-up complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 50
Not provided
1. Patients with systemic syndrome. 2. Patients with facial anomalies / facial features abnormalities / eyelid tumors etc. that are thought to affect epiblepharon. 3. Patients who undergo surgery at the same time for upper epiblepharon or epicanthus. 4. Patients who have had a history of surgery on eyelids in the past. 5. Patients with abnormal lid closure, such as facial nerve paralysis, ptosis of the eyelids. 6. Traumatic epiblepharon. 7. Patients with keratoconjunctival disease not caused by epiblepharon. 8. Patients who can not respond to ophthalmologic examination mainly by slit lamp microscopy mainly due to the mental retardation. 9. Patients whose bleeding or scarring seems to be different from normal 10. Other patients who is unlikely to participate in the study, judge by the medical doctor.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Cure rate (1 month and 6 months after surgical) The severity of keratopathy and ciliary touch by slit-lump examination.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Recurrence rate, therapeutic effect, corneal shape, refraction, cosmetic, and safety. The severity of keratopathy and ciliary touch by slit-lump examination, corneal topography, auto refract mater, optical coherence tomography and photography.