Ophthalmic complications of endoscopic ethmoidectomy: a case report
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چکیده
Damage to ethmoid structures following removal of nasal polyps can cause severe complications. A patient aged 48 years with damage to right orbital structures sustained in the course of transnasal endoscopic surgery for ethmoid polyps was operated. After operation were complications.
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Ophthalmic complications after surgery for nasal and sinus polyposis.
PURPOSE To describe ophthalmic complications after nasal and sinus surgery. METHODS Four cases with orbital complications were etrospectively selected from among more than 2000 cases of orbital pathologies. RESULTS Motility disturbances due to extraocular muscle injury occurred in two patients after intranasal ethmoidectomy and in one patient after a Caldwell-Luc procedure. In the fourth ca...
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