A case of blowout fracture of the orbital wall with eyeball entrapped within the ethmoid sinus.
Blowout fractures, fractures of an orbital wall, are a common result of orbital injury. The author has experienced a case of a 66-year-old man who sustained a blowout fracture of the orbital wall with his intact eyeball entrapped within the ethmoid sinus. After undergoing a successful reduction surgery, the eyeball was repositioned to its original position, but the patient lost extraocular motility as well as vision. The final visual acuity was perception of light as a result of traumatic optic nerve injury and secondary retinal ischemia.
Kang
Byoung Do
BD
Department of Ophthalmology, Dankook University Medical School & Hospital, Cheonan, Chungnam, Korea.
Jang
Moo Hwan
MH
D000368:Aged; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006547:Hernia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D059685:Herniorrhaphy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009917:Orbital Fractures / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed