Revista Brasileira de Oftalmologia (Jan 2014)

Unusual ocular manifestations of silent sinus syndrome

  • Fabricio Lopes da Fonseca,
  • Luciana Mazoti,
  • Mariza Polati

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5935/0034-7280.20140010
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 73, no. 1
pp. 44 – 46

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Silent sinus syndrome is an acquired condition in which there is a gradual collapse of the orbital floor and inward retraction of the maxillary sinus (atelectasis of the maxillary sinus). This in turn may cause associated ocular occurrences of enophthalmos and hypotropia. This is a report of an 8 year-old boy with silent sinus syndrome and associated ocular motility disorders. The association between silent sinus syndrome and ocular motility disturbance has been recently described in the literature. However, this is an infrequent association, mainly in childhood.

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