No need for cutting of the lateral rectus muscle: in the transconjunctival approach to the muscle cone of the orbit.
The successful biopsy of a capillary hemangioma in a child and the removal of a cavernous hemangioma from the muscle cone of the orbit of an adult by a simplified transconjunctival approach without temporary separation of an extraocular muscle tendon are reported.
D000328:Adult; D003228:Conjunctiva / Q000601:surgery*; D005094:Exophthalmos / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006392:Hemangioma, Cavernous / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles; D009918:Orbital Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed