[Surgical treatment of concomitant strabism in children younger than 15 years. Results 6 weeks after surgery].

In order to evaluate the short-term results we carried out a retrospective study on 104 children who had been operated on in 1993 for concomitant convergent (n = 74) and divergent (n = 30) strabismus. Six weeks after the operation an alignment within 0-10 delta was achieved in 64% of the convergent children and 44% of the divergent children. When we evaluated the subgroups of children with convergent strabismus we found a postoperative alignment within 0-10 delta in 54% of the patients with strabismus from before six months of age (infantile esotropia), and in 93% of the children in whom the strabismus was present from after two years of age. In the total material we could demonstrate an improvement in binocular function in 17%. Based on a total evaluation we consider that 80% obtained a good postoperative result. We believe that continual, computer-based evaluation of the strabismus patients would be a valuable tool to further improve our results.