Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In rare instances, congenital absence of the inferior rectus muscle may be the cause of an apparent inferior ...

To identify the predictive factors for overcorrection and depression impairment after recession of the inferior rectus muscle (IRM) in patients with Graves’ orbitopathy. The charts of 124 consecutive ...

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 ...

We present a patient who had an inferior rectus muscle entrapment as a result of sinus expansion by balloon catheterization for treating a compressed sinus fracture. A 39-year-old male was injured in ...

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 ...

The superior rectus is an eye muscle, controlling the eye as it moves up. This muscle is among four muscles — including the medial rectus, lateral rectus, and the inferior rectus — which control the ...

Alphabet patterns like A or V, first described by Urist, [1] are known to occur in association with esotropia or exotropia in the primary position. Less commonly, a significant deviation (exotropia) ...

Background During antenatal period, many woman experience an increase of inter-rectus muscle distance (IRD) due to a weakening of the linea alba, considering a widening of >2 cm pathological.

Correspondence to: Mr Geutjens, Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, London Road, Derby DE1 2QY, UK; Guido.Geutjens{at}sdah-tr.trent.nhs.uk A rare case is presented of a longstanding rupture of the rectus ...