title: [Squint operations for impaired motility due to endocrine ophthalmopathy].
abstract: In every case of an uncertain vertical diplopia one should think of an endocrine ophthalmopathy. A squint operation done in time will improve the motility of the eye. 8 of our 9 patients had no longer a diplopia after surgery and got binocular vision. 6 months after stabilization of the endocrine situation we resected and recessed the rectus muscles, especially the vertical rectus muscles, in 1 case we advanced the inferior oblique muscle. The amount of the surgical correction depended on the motility disturbance and the angle of squint which we compensated a few days before the operation by means of prisms. Postoperatively the patients got steroids parenterally.
authors.affiliation: Augenklinik des Lehrkrankenhauses Kassel, BRD.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Aust
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Schönherr
mesh_terms: D004172:Diplopia / Q000209:etiology*; D004700:Endocrine System Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles / Q000601:surgery; D013285:Strabismus / Q000601:surgery*; D015348:Vision, Binocular
vernacular_title: Schieloperationen bei endokrin bedingten Motilitätsstörungen.