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Congenital ptosis is a dystrophy of the levator muscle. It may be unilateral or bilateral with excellent to poor levator function . Most congenital ptosis with reasonable levator function can be improved with levator aponeurosis or muscle resection. The dilemma is choosing the correct procedure for a severe unilateral ptosis with poor levator function , supramaximal levator muscle resection or frontalis sling .
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Chen Y, Weber AC, Marx DP, Allen RC, Levine MR. Frontalis sling frontalis sling in manual of oculoplastic surgery, 5th ed. Switzerland: Springer; 2018. p. 183–95.
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Levine, M.R. (2020). Congenital Ptosis. In: El Toukhy, E. (eds) Oculoplastic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36934-7_8
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