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Case Reports
. 1979 May;174(5):715-21.

[Gaze induced monocular obscurations with cavernouse hemangioma of the orbit. Computer-tomographic demonstration of orbital anatomy in various positions of gaze (author's transl)]

[Article in German]
  • PMID: 491445
Case Reports

[Gaze induced monocular obscurations with cavernouse hemangioma of the orbit. Computer-tomographic demonstration of orbital anatomy in various positions of gaze (author's transl)]

[Article in German]
R Unsöld et al. Klin Monbl Augenheilkd. 1979 May.

Abstract

A young woman with only minimal proptosis from a cavernous hemangioma of the left orbit complained of monocular obscurations of vision evoked by right alteral gaze. By analysis of the symptoms, we excluded direct compression of the globe, the optic nerve, and the ophthalmic artery as well as a retinal electrophysiologic phenomenon as a cause of the obscuration. Some vascular phenomenon occurring within the muscle cone appeared to be the most likely explanation. Computer tomography in various positions of gaze revealed the dynamic anatomical relationship between optic nerve and tumor. During adduction, the nerve pressed against and shifted beneath the tumor in the region where the ophthalmic artery crosses over it.

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