Rare? That's an Understatement

Progressive exotropiaHispanic girl with progressively worsening exotropia over a 2 year period.VA: Correctable to 20/25 OD, 20/40 OSPsammoma bodies1. Kuratsu J, Okamura T, Ushio Y. A Paediatric Patient with Meningioma Arising from the Cavernous Sinus Wall. Acta Neurochir 139:259-260, 1997. 2. Ersahin Y, Ozdamar N, Demirtas E, et al. Meningioma of the cavernous sinus in a child. Childs Nerv Syst 15(1):8-10,1999

The Superior-Medial Lid Crease Orbitotomy: A Photoessay

The superior-medial lid crease approach to the intraorbital optic nerve may be easier to learn, less technically challenging and better able to provide wider surgical exposure than other traditional transorbital surgical approaches. Our experience with this recently described and less well-known technique authored by Pelton and Patel is more limited than with other traditional approaches. Yet, we believe the standard approaches (medial transconjunctival, medial transcaruncular, and lateral transcutaneous with/without bone flap) are more technically difficult, more time consuming, more restricted by a tighter working space, and more limited with respect to degree of exposure of the optic nerve compared to the superior-medial lid crease approach

Adjuvant Therapy for Invasive Sino-Orbital Fungal Infection

The treatment of invasive sino-orbital fungal infection is complicated both by the presence of comorbid medical conditions, and the resulting disfigurement of radical surgical debridement. Both of these factors limit therapeutic options

CT Scanning in Pediatric and Adult Populations: Is the Radiation Dose Exposure Significant?

An extensive study overseen by the US National Academy of Sciences concerning 100,000 survivors of the World War II A bomb attack provides long term estimates of risk of excess cancer. Data concerning the population exposed to low dose radiation (0-20 rem) is now available. The radiation exposure of typical CT imaging studies falls within this dose range