The aim of this study was to evaluate the motor, sensory, functional, and head posture results of recession of the lateral rectus muscle contralateral to the involved eye in patients with exotropic ...

Retrospective noncomparative case series to investigate the role of rectus muscle myectomy for the treatment of large-angle strabismus in patients with Graves’ ophthalmopathy. Data from 47 consecutive ...

Reviewed by Clifton M. Jackness, MD, Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, NYU School of Medicine, NY, NY ...

In the orbit of the eye, also called the eye socket, the lateral rectus muscle helps move the pupil away from the body’s midline. The muscle inserts into the temporal (outer) side of the eyeball and ...

A 4-year-old girl was referred to our practice after getting hit in the right eye with a clothes hanger 3 days before, which was witnessed by friends who were baby-sitting the child. The eye was noted ...

Dr. Mark A. Matza (Medicine): An 18-year-old man was evaluated at this hospital because of diplopia and proptosis of the left eye. The patient had been well until approximately 33 months before this ...

A CT of the orbit with coronal sections demonstrated a fracture of the orbital floor extending to the orbital apex with entrapment of the inferior rectus muscle (Figure 2). A hypotropia is typically ...

Eye muscle repair surgery is a procedure that corrects a muscle imbalance in the eyes. The muscle imbalance causes the eyes to cross inward or outward. This condition is known as strabismus. People ...