Elevation deficit caused by accessory extraocular muscle.
OBJECTIVE
To report an elevation deficit, which was caused by an accessory extraocular muscle, in a 6-year-old boy.


METHODS
Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging were used to confirm an accessory, fusiform, well-defined, solid structure in the retrobulbar space.


RESULTS
A supernumerary intraconal muscle was detected between the annulus of Zinn and the posterior part of the left globe.


CONCLUSIONS
This rare anomaly may represent an atavistic retractor bulbi muscle.
Valmaggia
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Department of Strabismus and Neuroophthalmology, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Zaunbauer
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Gottlob
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D002648:Child; D005124:Eye Abnormalities / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles / Q000002:abnormalities*; D013285:Strabismus / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed