| Eyeball Displacement into Ethmoid Sinus with Good Visual Restoration. |
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Hye Rim Choe, Namju Kim, Ho Kyung Choung |
1Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. resourceful@hanmail.net
2Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea.
3Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul Metropolitan Government-Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Korea. |
| 수술 후 좋은 시력 회복을 보인 벌집굴 내 안구전위 1예 |
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최혜림1,2⋅김남주1,2⋅정호경1,3 |
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서울대학교 의과대학 안과학교실1, 분당서울대학교병원 안과2, 서울특별시 보라매병원 안과3 |
Correspondence:
Namju Kim,
Email: resourceful@hanmail.net
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Received: 16 June 2016 • Revised: 15 July 2016 • Accepted: 19 August 2016 |
| Abstract |
PURPOSE
To report a case of eyeball displacement into the ethmoid sinus followed by early surgical intervention and good visual recovery. CASE SUMMARY: A 46-year-old female visited our hospital after she injured the right side of her face. Her visual acuity could not be measured and computed tomography revealed displacement of the right eyeball into the ethmoid sinus, as well as right medial orbital wall fracture and rupture of the right medial rectus muscle. She underwent surgical reduction of the herniated eyeball and surgical correction of the medial orbital wall fracture within 20 hours after the accident. Eighteen months after the surgery, visual acuity of the right eye improved from light perception to 20/28, and her color vision and visual field of the right eye improved to normal range. CONCLUSIONS: Displacement of the eyeball in the orbital wall fracture is very rare, and eyeball displacement into the ethmoid sinus is even rarer. We achieved good visual outcome through early surgical intervention. The early anatomical reduction of the displacement and wall fracture may promote improved final visual outcome in other similar cases. |
| Key Words:
Ethmoid sinus;Eyeball displacement;Medial rectus muscle rupture;Orbital wall fracture |
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