Torsional diplopia after transantral orbital decompression and extraocular muscle surgery associated with Graves' orbitopathy

Am J Ophthalmol. 1992 Apr 15;113(4):363-73. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9394(14)76157-4.

Abstract

Graves' orbitopathy can be associated with horizontal, vertical, and torsional diplopia. Of 428 patients treated with transantral orbital decompression, 21 had incycloduction (mean, 12.8 degrees; range, 5 to 20 degrees) and five had excycloduction (mean, 12 degrees; range, 5 to 20 degrees). All 26 patients had had recessions of the medial or inferior rectus muscle (or both) before onset of torsional diplopia. Mean recession was 5.5 mm (range, 4 to 10 mm) and 5.3 mm (range, 2 to 10 mm) of medial rectus muscle and inferior rectus muscle, respectively. An A pattern was often associated with the condition. Superior oblique tenectomy and inferior oblique myectomy were performed most frequently for incycloduction and excycloduction, respectively. Superior oblique tenectomy induced a mean incycloduction decrease of 7.1 degrees (range, 0 to 12 degrees). Exotropia in downgaze was decreased, and a small ipsilateral hyperdeviation was induced. Bilateral inferior oblique myectomy in one patient decreased excycloduction 10 degrees without inducing new deviation. At follow-up (mean, 63.7 months) after last strabismus operation, 15 patients with incycloduction and two with excycloduction had no diplopia.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Diplopia / etiology*
  • Diplopia / surgery
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Graves Disease / complications*
  • Graves Disease / surgery
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Oculomotor Muscles / surgery*
  • Orbit / surgery*
  • Postoperative Complications
  • Strabismus / surgery
  • Treatment Outcome