VESCONE - VETERINARY EMERGENCY & SPECIALTY CENTER OF NEW ENGLAND

OPHTHALMOLOGY SURGICAL SPECTRUM

Advanced eyelid grafting techniques (following large mass removal or for congenital defects)
Axial pattern skin flap (for coverage of wide margin exenteration defects)
Brow elevation (stellate rhydidectomy, mersilene sling)
Conjunctival pedicle graft/BioSYS grafts (for descemetocele, perforated cornea)
Corneal laceration repair
Cryoepilation (for distichia)
Cryosurgery (for select eyelid tumors)
Cyclocryotherapy (glaucoma)
Ectopic cilia excision
Entropion repair (typically combinations of Hotz-celcus, Stades eversion, lateral canthoplasty, etc)
Enucleation (typically with orbital prosthesis)
Evisceration with intrascleral prosthesis
Exenteration (for orbital neoplasia)
Eyelid H-plasty
Eyelid laceration repair
Eyelid V-plasty
Glaucoma valve insertion
Imperforate punctum opening
Lamellar keratectomy with corneal transposition graft (for corneal sequestrum)
Lensectomy
Nictitans excision (neoplasia)
Orbital abscess drainage (orbital cellulites/abcess)
Orbitotomy/orbital exploration
Parotid duct transposition (for KCS)
Prolapsed nictitans gland repositioning (for “cherry eye”)
Temporary eyelid tacking or stapling (for puppy entropion)
Temporary tarsorrhaphy (for proptosis)
Thermokeratoplasty (for endothelial decompensation with bullous keratopathy; chronic indolent ulcer)

VETERINARY EMERGENCY & SPECIALTY CENTER OF NEW ENGLAND . 180 BEAR HILL ROAD, WALTHAM, MA . 02454 . TEL:781-684-8387