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Binocular Dynamic Visual Acuity in Eyeglass-Corrected Myopic Patients
Published on: March 29, 2022
Esotropia-hypertropia complex in a patient with myopic strabismus fixus
Leilei Zou1, Dan Wang2, Ju Zhang2
1Department of Ophthalmology, Shanghai Children's Medical Center, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
Abstract:
Patients with highly myopic strabismus generally develop esotropia and hypotropia. We report the case of a 54-year-old woman with a combination of esotropia-hypertropia complex in the right eye and esotropia-hypotropia complex in the left eye, with unilateral congenital severe ptosis. The patient had inferotemporal prolapse of the globe in the right eye. Inferotemporal prolapse in this case could have been due to extraocular muscle pulley dehiscence in this area, causing the inferior oblique muscle to slip around the globe along the path of least resistance. Subsequently, the inferotemporal staphyloma would have prevented the typical esotropia and hypotropia of the globe.
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