EyeRounds Online Atlas of Ophthalmology

Contributor: William Charles Caccamise, Sr, MD, Retired Clinical Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

*Dr. Caccamise has very generously shared his images of patients taken while operating during the "eye season" in rural India as well as those from his private practice during the 1960's and 1970's. Many of his images are significant for their historical perspective and for techniques and conditions seen in settings in undeveloped areas.

Category: Oculoplastics

Spastic entropion: Bodian operation

Martin Bodian, MD was a prominent oculoplastic surgeon in New York City during the 1950s into the 1980s. In 1957 and again in 1977, Dr. Bodian reported " a simple operation for senile spastic entropion ".The photos are of a patient whose spastic entropion was corrected through the Bodian tarsal resection procedure by Dr. Caccamise in1977. The first photo was taken a few days following surgery. The second photo was taken after the suture had been removed. Google: M. Bodian's operation for spastic entropion.

The appearance after the lid had recovered completely from removal of the suture.

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