A minimum of 6 months follow up was available for all patients included in the study.
Diplopia after lower orbital floor repair.
A total of 47 of 54 86.
16 the inferior rectus muscle and the inferior oblique muscle may be involved.
If the diplopia doesn t resolve and it interferes with the patient s daily activities then surgery is warranted a frequently cited study by dal canto and linberg 2 demonstrated that patients fared equally well if their orbital floor fractures were repaired within 14 days or within 29 days after trauma.
A total of 47 of 54 86 patients had clinically significant diplopia.
Ial postoperative complication the incidence of diplopia after surgical repair of orbital blowout fractures has not been well studied.
Patients who have tenting or deformity of eom on ct scan are more likely to have postoperative diplopia.
Once improvement stops a decision for surgical repair is appropriate.
Prognostic ct findings of diplopia after surgical repair of pure orbital blowout fracture pubmed the prognosis of patients was predicted by ct evaluation.
We retrospectively studied 54 patients who underwent repair of an orbital blowout fracture.
We retrospectively studied 54 patients who underwent repair of an orbital blowout fracture.
We retrospectively studied 54 patients who underwent repair of an orbital blowout fracture.
In this retrospective study of 58 patients 36 eyes repaired within 14 days mean of 9 days were compared with 22 eyes repaired at up to 29 days mean of 19 days.
A minimum of 6 months follow up was available for all patients included in the study.
All patients referred during a 2 year period because of persistent diplopia after surgical repair of orbital fracture were categorized according to the degree and pattern of ocular motility.
Diplopia in patients with orbital floor fractures may appear in either up or downgaze or both 9 14 the etiology of this phenomenon has been speculated on since lerman s 1970 study.
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The prognosis of patients was predicted by ct evaluation.
Complication the incidence of diplopia after surgical repair of orbital blowout fractures has not been well studied.
An association of preoperative diplopia as well as radiologic evidence of extraocular muscle eom swelling and diplopia 6 months after repair of pure blow out fractures with variousalloplastic.
A minimum of 6 months follow up was available for all patients included in the study.