INTRODUCTION A case is presented of a patient with severe and chronic pain in the orbital region, which was relieved by retrobulbar injection of absolute alcohol. The management of chronic pain in the orbital region has received little attention and the literature is reviewed. CLINICAL PICTURE A 52-year-old man with adenoid cystic carcinoma of the maxillary sinus was suffering from severe pai...

purpose: to compare the efficacy and safety of two local anesthetic methods; retrobulbar anesthesia and parabulbar anesthesia using ptfe intravenous cannula without needle in extracapsular cataract surgery. method: a randomized prospective partially blind study was conducted on 66 eyes of 66 patients with senile cataract who were scheduled for ecce and pc iol surgery. after randomization, 35 pa...

Preheating local anesthetic agents used for retrobulbar and facial nerve injection greatly decreases patient discomfort.

AIM To assess the effects of acute orbital volume changes after retrobulbar injection on optic nerve head topography. METHODS The study population consisted of 95 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus with clinically significant macular oedema who required focal pattern laser photocoagulation therapy in one eye. Before each laser treatment, 49 patients required a retrobulbar injection (appro...

We report 3 cases of bilateral orbital sclerosing inflammation and review the literatures concerning bilateral idiopathic orbital inflammation. We found that when idiopathic orbital inflammation presents as a bilaterally diffuse retrobulbar apical mass, the sclerosing subtype must be considered first, and an orbital biopsy should be performed. The present cases were characterized by chronic-ons...