Blepharospasm and Other Facial Spastic Disorders

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Figure 32.1 “Yawning man” or “De Gaper.” Pieter Brueghel the Elder, around 1560. (Courtesy of Musées Royaux des Beaux–Arts de Belgique, Bruxelles.) The first report of blepharospasm in the medical literature was…

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Orbital Structural Disorders

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Figure 27.1 A, Coronal CT scan showing a mucocele of the left ethmoid and maxillary sinus. B, Coronal CT scan of the same patient at a more anterior level. Note the…

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Orbital Trauma

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Figure 34.1 A, Orbital anatomy showing bones of the orbit. B, Medial wall of the orbit showing ethmoidal foramina. C, Orbit floor anatomy showing location of infraorbital nerve and inferior oblique…

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Imaging Modalities

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Figure 5.1 A frontal radiograph in the Caldwell projection (A) and a coned down image of the left orbit (B) demonstrate a small radiopaque metallic foreign body that projects over the…

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Benign and Premalignant Tumors of the Eyelid

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Figure 22.1 Squamous papilloma. A, Clinically, the lesion appears as a flesh-colored papule on the left upper eyelid margin of this patient. B, Histologic section demonstrates proliferation of stratified squamous epithelium…

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Eyelid and Lacrimal Trauma

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Figure 35.1 Eyelid anatomy. Cross-sectional view of the upper eyelid. (With permission from Jonathan J. Dutton.) Epidemiology The United States Eye Injury Registry reports that 61% of eyelid/lacrimal trauma has coexisting globe…

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Metastatic and Secondary Orbital Tumors

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Figure 21.1 Infiltrative breast carcinoma. A, A 72-year-old woman with widespread metastatic breast carcinoma presents with failing vision, bilateral ptosis, grossly restricted eye movements, and hard, woody infiltrative lesions palpable in…

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Vascular Fistulae and Orbital Implications

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Figure 26.1 Normal venous anatomy of the orbit and relation to the cavernous sinus. (Redrawn with permission from Steinkuller PG, Jones DB. Microbial preseptal and orbital cellulitis. In: Duane’s Ophthalmology. New York:…

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