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Optic neuropathy secondary to a sphenoid-ethmoidal mucocele: Case report.
CASE REPORT The case is presented of a 51-year old male patient with a history of blunt trauma in the frontal region and a one-year history of vision loss, proptosis and paresis of the lateral rectus muscle of the right eye. A right ethmoid and bilateral sphenoid mucocele was diagnosed. Drainage was performed using an external and endoscopic approach with improvement in symptoms without recurre...
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lenge. Surgery can lead to iridodialysis, cyclodialysis, and subsequent bleeding [5]. The following steps prevented these complications in the two patients presented here. First, we used a modified Siepser technique for creation of the knot in situ. This type of knot minimizes the force pulling on the iris from the direction of the corneolimbal angle. Second, we used an IOL manipulator to creat...
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MUCOCOELE of the frontal or ethmoidal sinuses is an uncommon cause of unilateral proptosis which may produce considerable difficulty in diagnosis. There seems a natural tendency for these cases to be sent to an eye specialist, and a curious reluctance for him to refer the patient to an E.N.T. surgeon, often preferring a neurological opinion which may involve the patient in expensive and unpleas...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1912
ISSN: 0035-9157
DOI: 10.1177/0035915712005006127