[Spatial ultrasound visualization of the eye and orbit]

The paper presents data on the diagnostic use of three-dimensional (3-D) ultrasound visualization, analyzes earlier existing and new ultrasound diagnostic technologies, and shows it expedient to apply them in ophthalmologic practice. A hundred and forty-six healthy individuals and 52 patients (60 eyes) with different diseases of the eye and orbital cavity (chorioidal melanoma, facial angiomatosis, retinal detachment, vitreoretinal changes, etc.) were examined. The results of the studies and the analysis of the data available in the literature on this problem allow the authors to state that 3-D ultrasound diagnostic technologies can detect occult masses undetectable during conventional visual and ultrasound studies and define the topography of the dislocation of structurally complicated changes in the tunics of the eyeball.