Deep lateral wall orbital decompression following strabismus surgery in patients with Type II ophthalmic Graves' disease.

CONCLUSIONS: While we still prefer to perform medial wall and floor decompression as the initial treatment for ophthalmic Graves' disease, for proptosis following consecutive strabismus surgery, DLWD appears to be effective with a low rate of recurrent primary-gaze diplopia.
PMID: 29319400 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Orbit - January 10, 2018 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Ellis MP, Broxterman EC, Hromas AR, Whittaker TJ, Sokol JA Tags: Orbit Source Type: research