Ectropion : a case of ectropion successfully treated by transplantation of skin from the arm / by Louis H. Tosswill.

  • Tosswill, Louis Henry.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Ectropion : a case of ectropion successfully treated by transplantation of skin from the arm / by Louis H. Tosswill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    now, four months after the operation, its boun- daries can be distinctly traced from its colour offering a considerable contrast to the cicatri- cial tissue round it. The same remarks apply, word for word, to the graft in the lower lid, save that the outline of the latter is not quite so well defined, and that I think a part of it was lost by ulceration; it measures about an inch in length. The ectropion of the upper lid has been com- pletely cured by the operation, and the con- junctival surface is no longer exposed, not even when the patient looks downwards. In the lower lid, notwithstanding the presence of the large skin-graft, the deficiency of lid tissue is shown by its still slanting downwards unduly, but this defect I hope to rectify at some future date by a similar operation. In sleep his eyeball is now quite covered, and his cornea presents a nearly normal appearance. I should mention that the wounds of arm and forearm, caused by the removal of the skin-grafts, had their edges brought together as nearly as possible by strong silk sutures and sticking plaster, were treated in accordance