Correction of upper eyelid retraction using tissue removed in blepharoptosis repair.

Five patients (four women, 41, 51, 66, and 78 years old, and a 5-year-old boy) had blepharoptosis of one upper eyelid and an abnormal retraction of the other eyelid. Both anomalies were corrected at the same operation by using the tissue removed during blepharoptosis repair in one eyelid to correct the retraction in the other eyelid. As a result, both upper eyelids had a more normal, symmetric appearance and eyelid function was maintained.