Vol.103 No.2 contentsPRACTICA OTO-RHINO-LARYNGOLOGICA
Vol. 103 No. 2 February 2010
A Case of Orbital Hematoma
Masanobu Mizuta, Kazuhiko Shoji, Atsuhito Takahashi,
Takehiro Iki and Mami Matsubara
(Tenri Hospital)
We report a case of orbital hematoma. A 50-year-old woman with sudden right superior eyelid swelling and diplopia was found in computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to have a spindle-shaped mass beneath the periosteum of the right orbit, diagnosed as subperiosteal orbital hematoma. When swelling continued unabated, we surgically drained it in a frontal approach 23 days after onset, after which swelling and diplopia were resolved.
Key words :orbital hematoma, diplopia, surgical drainage