ArticleAesthetic plastic surgery2026
Orbital Septum-Periocular Tissue Connections and Septal Histological Characteristics in Mild Ptosis During Blepharoplasty.
Article in Aesthetic plastic surgery, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectiveTo investigate the anatomical connections and histological features of the orbital septum in patients with mild ptosis undergoing blepharoplasty.
methodsFrom May 2018 to December 2019, we studied 276 blepharoplasty patients (549 eyes) divided into normal (498 eyes) and mild ptosis (51 eyes) groups. The study focused on the orbital septum, examining its adjacent structures and histological composition.
resultsAmong 498 normal eyes and 51 eyes with mild ptosis, the mild ptosis group exhibited a significantly increased incidence of orbital septum to orbital fat envelope adhesions (χ2 = 95.00, P < 0.001) and of transverse ligament formation between the orbital septum and the upper levator aponeurosis (χ2 = 99.00, P < 0.001) compared to the normal group. Hematoxylin-eosin staining (HE staining) demonstrated that the orbital septum in both groups predominantly consists of a bilayered connective tissue, with a looser anterior layer and a denser posterior layer. In the mild ptosis group, the connective tissue fibers were found to be sparser and more relaxed compared to the normal group. Masson and immunohistochemical staining (α-SMA) revealed the absence of muscular elements within the orbital septum in both groups.
conclusionAdhesions between the orbital septum and the orbital fat envelope and transverse ligament between the orbital septum and the levator aponeurosis may be the cause of mild ptosis. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE III: This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266 .
Indexed as
Identifiers
41249529What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.