ALLMedicine™ Duane Syndrome Center

Nov 18th, 2021 - Many potential surgical options exist to address large-angle deviations and head turns that result from various forms of paralytic strabismus. Muscle transposition surgeries serve as suitable alternatives to simple resection-recessions. Here, we r...

Apr 28th, 2021 - Practice Essentials Globe retraction may result from neurogenic, myogenic, or mechanical etiologies. Co-contraction of extraocular muscles due to synkinesis or aberrant firing can lead to retraction on a congenital or acquired basis. Scirrhous bre...

Mar 7th, 2021 - A 19-year-old man with Loeys-Dietz syndrome and right exotropic Duane syndrome after bilateral lateral rectus recessions at age 22 months presented with recurrent progressive exotropia 17 years after his initial surgery. Surgical correction was ab...

Mar 2nd, 2021 - Background Cranial nerve VI, also known as the abducens nerve, innervates the ipsilateral lateral rectus (LR), which functions to abduct the ipsilateral eye. The sixth cranial nerve has a long subarachnoid course. The sixth nerve nucleus is locate...

Feb 19th, 2021 - To determine the prevalence of anomalous extraocular bands in patients who underwent surgery for Duane syndrome and to compare the clinical findings in patients with and without bands. Thirty-one patients with Duane syndrome who had their first su...

Mar 14th, 2018 - Discussion Children can present with an anomalous head posture (AHP) due to ocular, orthopedic, or neurologic etiologies.[1] AHP may present as a head tilt, face turn, chin up, chin down, or any other combination thereof, which are adopted in an a...

Dec 27th, 2011 - Clinical Presentation An 8-year-old girl was brought to the eye clinic by her mother with a chief complaint of photophobia in both eyes for the past 5 years. The patient's mother expressed concern for the girl's droopy eyelids and proclivity for a...

Mar 19th, 2010 - Clinical Presentation A 2-year-old boy presented to the clinic for evaluation of restricted ocular motility. The patient's mother had noticed that, since birth, the child's right eye did not move outward fully and that it also shot upward when he ...