[Emergency surgical treatment of injuries to the internal angle of the eyelids (author's transl)].

Reconstruction of the normal internal angle after injury raises the problem of conservation of the lacrimal pathways and the fixation of this angle when the ligament has been sectioned. Emergency treatment for the main types of lesion encountered are discussed. Superficial and deep lacerations require careful suturing in three planes and reconstruction of the lacrimal pathways; evulsions and tears should be treated by blepharopexy after determining the conjugated points; evulsion of the internal angle is often associated with an orbitonasal dislocation and has to be treated by transnasal internal canthopexy.