[Sensorial strabismus: a study of 191 cases].
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the charts of patients with sensorial strabismus regarding range of different aspects, such as etiology, the type and the amount of deviation, relationship between the type of deviation and the patient's age when the disease occurred and the surgical outcome.


METHODS
A retrospective analysis of data charts of 191 patients seen at the section of Ophthalmology at the University of São Paulo, from September 1990 to July 2002.


RESULTS
There were 84 male and 107 female patients. The most frequent diagnosis responsible for low vision in the squinted eye was atrophic chorioretinitis in 49 patients. Eighty-seven were exotropes and 97 were esotropes. Fifty patients were operated on, but 8 of them were lost to follow-up. In 90.5% the surgical outcome was successful: less than 15 prismatic diopters of hyper or undercorrection after surgery.


CONCLUSIONS
The good surgical outcome seen in this and other studies enhances and justifies the need for surgical correction of this type of strabismus.
Departamento de Oftalmologia e Otorrinolaringologia, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. brauliofolco@yahoo.com.br
Bráulio Folco Telles de
BF
Oliveira
Silvane
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Bigolin
Murilo Barreto
MB
Souza
Mariza
M
Polati
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008499:Medical Records; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013285:Strabismus / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome