Thyroid Eye Disease: A Comprehensive Review

May 26, 2017 by in OPHTHALMOLOGY Comments Off on Thyroid Eye Disease: A Comprehensive Review

Fig. 9.1 Pathophysiology of thyroid eye disease. Self-tolerance to the autoantigens TSHR and IGF-1R is lost for unclear reasons. Antigen-presenting cells (APC) internalize TSHR and IGF-1R and present them to…

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Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis

May 26, 2017 by in OPHTHALMOLOGY Comments Off on Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis

Single system (SS) Multisystem (MS) Unifocal (bone, skin, lymph node) Low risk Multifocal (bone or lymph nodes) High-risk organ involvement (liver, spleen, lung, hematopoietic) Children with SS LCH represent about…

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Idiopathic Orbital Inflammation

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© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015Hakan Demirci (ed.)Orbital Inflammatory Diseases and Their Differential DiagnosisEssentials in Ophthalmology10.1007/978-3-662-46528-8_2 2. Idiopathic Orbital Inflammation Hakan Demirci1   (1) Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, W.K. Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan,…

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Orbital Floor Fractures

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Fig. 3.1 The “hydraulic” theory of the orbital floor fracture (citation from Della Rocca [52]). See explanation in the text: It is an interesting fact that, contrary to the established…

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Frontobasilar Fractures

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Fig. 8.1 The frontobasilar region: (a–c) Borders of the frontobasilar region. (d) Energy required for different facial segments to fracture [150] The basilar region is also subdivided into the central…

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Naso-Orbito-Ethmoid Fractures

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Fig. 5.1 Types of NOE fractures: (a) anatomy of the NOE region. (b) Telescopic displacement of nasal bones into the interorbital space. (c) Trajectory of a NOE fracture. (d) Complete…

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Zygomaticoorbital Fractures

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Fig. 6.1 Zygomaticoorbital fracture: (a) Isolation of the zygomatic bone with respect to four sutures. (b) Fracture lines in a typical zygomaticoorbital fracture: (1) the fracture line starting from the…

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Medial Wall Fractures

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Fig. 4.1 Medial wall fractures: (а) “trap-door” fracture. There is some adipose tissue entrapped in the fracture site (arrow), (b) comminuted fracture of the medial wall, (c) comminuted fracture on…

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