Optic nerve decompression

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  • Moriyama Hiroshi
    Department of Otorhinolaryngology The Jikei University School of Medicine

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  • 視神経管開放術

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Recently, opthalmologists have recognized that marked edema of interstitial tissue of the intracanalicular optic nerve is the main cause of traumatic optic nerve injury with indirect blunt impact; therefore, they do not often ask the surgical therapy for the intracanalicular optic nerve damage to us, ENT doctors, and only tend to rely on conservative treatments (steroid etc) even in severe cases. However, the cases that have severe disturbance of visual acuity and field can not always be cured by conservative therapy. These cases need the surgical treatment which is performed endonasally, removing the bony wall of optic canal in ethmoid or sphenoid sinus under an endoscope. These procedures using an endscope is a little advanced technique of endonasal ethmoidectomy.

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  • CRID
    1390282680261820416
  • NII Article ID
    130004260255
  • DOI
    10.5106/jjshns.4.55
  • ISSN
    1884474X
    1349581X
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