Strabismus surgery, also called extraocular muscle surgery, is a set of procedures that correct eye misalignment by operating on the muscles that move the eye. The earliest recorded successful operation was performed on 26 October 1839 by Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach on a seven-year-old child with esotropia. Modern strabismus surgery includes procedures on the rectus and oblique muscles, sometimes using adjustable sutures and minimally invasive techniques, and outcomes tend to be best when the eye misalignment is corrected by 60 percent or more within six weeks after the operation.
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Strabismus surgery, also known as extraocular muscle surgery, eye muscle surgery, or eye alignment surgery, is surgery on the extraocular muscles to correct strabismus, a misalignment of the eyes.
2. Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach
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in 1839, Dieffenbach performed the first successful myotomy for the treatment of strabismus
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When was the first successful strabismus operation?
1839 by Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach.
The earliest recorded successful operation was performed on 26 October 1839 by Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach on a seven-year-old child with esotropia. It was a myotomy, a cut into an eye muscle, and it began the surgical correction of eye misalignment by operating on the muscles that move the eye.
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