To identify the predictive factors for overcorrection and depression impairment after recession of the inferior rectus muscle (IRM) in patients with Graves’ orbitopathy. The charts of 124 consecutive ...

A 4-year-old girl was referred to our practice after getting hit in the right eye with a clothes hanger 3 days before, which was witnessed by friends who were baby-sitting the child. The eye was noted ...

A CT of the orbit with coronal sections demonstrated a fracture of the orbital floor extending to the orbital apex with entrapment of the inferior rectus muscle (Figure 2). A hypotropia is typically ...

Background The comparable long-term outcomes of inferior oblique muscle myectomy and recession for the treatment of superior oblique underaction (in primary position and straight right and left gaze) ...

Dr. Mark A. Matza (Medicine): An 18-year-old man was evaluated at this hospital because of diplopia and proptosis of the left eye. The patient had been well until approximately 33 months before this ...

The superior rectus is an eye muscle, controlling the eye as it moves up. This muscle is among four muscles — including the medial rectus, lateral rectus, and the inferior rectus — which control the ...

Background During antenatal period, many woman experience an increase of inter-rectus muscle distance (IRD) due to a weakening of the linea alba, considering a widening of >2 cm pathological.

BALTIMORE — Over the past two decades, strabismologists have noticed an increase in the number of patients with strabismus after cataract surgery that seems to be caused by the anesthetic used in the ...

Alphabet patterns like A or V, first described by Urist, [1] are known to occur in association with esotropia or exotropia in the primary position. Less commonly, a significant deviation (exotropia) ...