Background Orbital decompression is an important surgical procedure for treatment of Graves' ophthalmopathy (GO), especially in women. It is reasonable for balanced orbital decompression of the lateral and medial wall. Various surgical approaches, including endoscopic transnasal surgery for medial wall and eye-side skin incision surgery for lateral wall, are being used nowadays, but many of the...

The surgical results of severe or complex deviations such as those due to complete third nerve palsy, aberrant innervation of extraocular muscles (EOMs) and Duane syndrome are usually not completely successful. Herein, we describe the surgical technique of EOM fixation to the orbital wall. After a limbal or fornix based conjunctival incision, the related EOM is identified and dissected; the mus...

Purpose. To evaluate the effect of en bloc lateral wall decompression with additional orbital fat resection in terms of exophthalmos reduction and complications. Methods. A retrospective, noncomparative case series study from 1999 to 2011 (chart review) in Graves' orbitopathy (GO) patients. The standardized surgical technique involved removal of the lateral orbital wall including the orbital ri...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical and epidemiological features of 132 patients with orbital wall fracture who were treated at Şişli Etfal Teaching and Research Hospital, Istanbul, between 2005-2012. METHODS The medical records of the patients with a diagnosis of orbital fracture were reviewed and analyzed. The patients were evaluated by age, gender, etiology, sympt...

Figure 1. Coronal view of computed tomography max/face revealing a right-sided medial orbital wall blowout fracture without entrapment.

Purpose: To present a case of orbital cellulitis secondary to dacryocystitis Case report: A 48-year-old postmenopausal lady was referred with a prominent proptosis of the right eye in addition to external ophthalmoplegia. She had one year history of lacrimation. Orbital Computed Tomography (CT) revealed an extraconal infiltration near the medial and inferior orbital wall consistent with orbital...

INTRODUCTION Recurrent or persistent inferior oblique overaction may occur after inferior oblique (IO) recession or anterior transposition. IO nasal and temporal myectomy and anterior-nasal transposition may result in undesirable IO palsy, exotropia, incyclotorsion, or limitation of elevation. Previous studies have shown that a rectus extraocular muscle may be profoundly weakened if the muscle ...

Repair of orbital bone defects caused by trauma, infection or cancer is a continuous challenge in reconstructive surgery. Few studies have reported the application of tissue engineering for the repair of orbital bone defects in large animal models. Thus, we investigated the effects of tissue-engineered bone enhanced by the human bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP2) on the repair of orbital wall ...

PURPOSE To describe a series of orbital fractures and associated ophthalmic and craniofacial injuries in the pediatric population. METHODS A retrospective case series of 312 pediatric patients over a 9-year period (2002-2011) with orbit fractures diagnosed by CT. RESULTS Five hundred ninety-one fractures in 312 patients were evaluated. There were 192 boys (62%) and 120 girls (38%) with an a...