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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-3-28
pubmed:abstractText
Over a 10-year period the authors have performed 92 transethmoidal optic nerve decompressions for the treatment of visual loss due to various pathological processes, including 45 cases of trauma, 32 cases of neoplasm, 2 cases of bacterial pansinusitis, 5 cases of sphenoethmoidal mucocele, 4 cases of aspergillosis (all were immunocompetent patients), 2 cases of Wegener's granulomatosis, and 2 cases of sarcoidosis. Forty-eight patients (52%) had preoperative visual acuity of light perception or better, and in 44 patients (48%) the preoperative vision was no light perception. Sixty-five patients (71%) achieved improvement of vision postoperatively. Twenty-four patients (26%) had no change in vision and 3 patients (3%) had deterioration of vision after surgery. The mean percentage of improvement was 40.7% +/- 6.9% in the trauma group, 61.6% +/- 23.2% in the neoplasm group, 66.4% +/- 25.2% in the infectious/mucocele group, and only one patient in the inflammatory group had slight visual improvement from no light perception to counting fingers. Extracranial optic nerve decompression can result in the improvement of visual function in some patients with optic nerve injury from various causes.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
D
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1049-2275
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
10
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
454-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10726518-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:10726518-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:10726518-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:10726518-Aged, 80 and over, pubmed-meshheading:10726518-Decompression, Surgical, pubmed-meshheading:10726518-Ethmoid Bone, pubmed-meshheading:10726518-Female, pubmed-meshheading:10726518-Head and Neck Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:10726518-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10726518-Male, pubmed-meshheading:10726518-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:10726518-Mucocele, pubmed-meshheading:10726518-Nerve Compression Syndromes, pubmed-meshheading:10726518-Neurosurgical Procedures, pubmed-meshheading:10726518-Optic Nerve Injuries, pubmed-meshheading:10726518-Retrospective Studies, pubmed-meshheading:10726518-Sinusitis, pubmed-meshheading:10726518-Treatment Outcome, pubmed-meshheading:10726518-Vision Disorders, pubmed-meshheading:10726518-Visual Acuity, pubmed-meshheading:10726518-Wegener Granulomatosis
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Extracranial optic nerve decompression: a 10-year review of 92 patients.
pubmed:affiliation
Facial Reconstructive Surgery, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review