Infantile exotropia generally presents in a similar fashion to congenital esotropia. It typically occurs early in life and presents with a large, constant exodeviation. Patients with infantile exotropia are usually operated on early in life in the same manner as patients with congenital esotropia. In this issue, Rajavi et al. demonstrated that 18.3% of patients with infantile exotropia needed a...

We report a case of silicone oil migration to the lateral rectus muscle discovered during otherwise uncomplicated strabismus surgery in patient with multiple previous vitreoretinal surgical interventions. A 58-year-old female underwent correct long-standing sensory exotropia. This numerous interventions due complex history retinal detachments subsequent repairs, including inserting and removing...

Report a case of a male patient with a macular scar compatible with ocular toxoplasmosis (OT) in right eye (RE) and review the relevant literature on this disease. A patient, who attended for a routine contact lens follow up, presented with amblyopic exotropia without any ocular disease. Best-corrected visual acuity of the affected eye was 20/40 with constant and mono-fixation exotropia. Ophtha...

The authors present an unorthodox surgical approach to reach the posterior segment of the lateral rectus muscle through a lateral orbitotomy and to manage difficult cases of recurrent exotropia. A review of the records of two patients with recurrent exotropia was done. After an anterior approach had been demonstrated to be inadequate due to shortening or fibrosis of the anterior part of this mu...

purpose : to evaluate outcome of surgically slanting extraocular muscle insertions in a and v-pattern strabismus methods : in this prospective non-randomized interventional case series, we created a slanting surgical reinsertion line with a 3- 4 mm difference between upper and lower corners of the muscles in 16 patients with a or v strabismus (v-exotropia in 10 patients, a-exotropia in 1 patien...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the efficacy of unilateral lateral rectus muscle advancement surgery based on one-fourth of the angle of consecutive esotropia within 25 prism diopters (PD) occurring after bilateral lateral rectus muscle recession for intermittent exotropia. METHODS Medical records of 11 patients who underwent unilateral lateral rectus muscle advancement for consecutive esotropia from ...

Purpose: We report a case of cavernous sinus meningioma presenting with unilateral pseudo-internuclear ophthalmoplegia.Case summary: A 50-year-old female visited our clinic history insidious onset horizontal diplopia at primary and left gaze over 3 weeks. The symptom had diurnal variation was aggravated fatigue. There intermittent upper eyelid drooping the right eye. She migraines, which recent...

purpose : the aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of intraoperative botulinum toxin-a (bta) injection as an adjunct to the surgical treatment of large-angle esotropia or exotropia. methods : thirteen patients were included in this interventional case series study. mean age of the patients was 23.31±13.29 years (range: 5-43 years). of these 13 patients, 6 were exotropic and 7 were...