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Health Encyclopedia: Eye Muscle Repair
Eye muscle repair is surgery to align eyes or correct eye muscle abnormality (
Alternative Names
Repair of cross-eye; Resection and recession; Lazy eye repair; Strabismus repair
Description
The surgery is most commonly done on children, but is also performed on adults with similar problems.
While the child is under general anesthesia (asleep and pain-free), a small incision is made in the tissue between the eye and eyelid (
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