Loss of reflex tearing after maxillary orthognathic surgery: a report of two cases

BACKGROUND: Few reports have described the ophthalmic complications that occur after maxillary orthognathic surgery. Since cases of decreased reflex tearing after maxillary orthognathic surgery are extremely rare, we describe 2 cases of loss of reflex tearing after maxillary orthognathic surgery. CA...

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Autores principales: Kang, Sunah, Jang, Sun Young, Lee, Areum, Jang, Jae Woo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3974743/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24673800
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2415-14-37
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author Kang, Sunah
Jang, Sun Young
Lee, Areum
Jang, Jae Woo
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description BACKGROUND: Few reports have described the ophthalmic complications that occur after maxillary orthognathic surgery. Since cases of decreased reflex tearing after maxillary orthognathic surgery are extremely rare, we describe 2 cases of loss of reflex tearing after maxillary orthognathic surgery. CASE PRESENTATION: Two Asian women, an 18-year-old and a 32-year-old, suffered from unilateral dryness and irritation caused by maxillary orthognathic surgery. In both patients, Schirmer test (II) showed reduced reflex tearing in 1 eye. Computed tomography showed that the pterygoid plate had been fractured in both patients. CONCLUSIONS: The pterygopalatine ganglion and its associated fibers in the pterygopalatine fossa may be injured during Le Fort osteotomy.
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spelling pubmed-39747432014-04-04 Loss of reflex tearing after maxillary orthognathic surgery: a report of two cases Kang, Sunah Jang, Sun Young Lee, Areum Jang, Jae Woo BMC Ophthalmol Case Report BACKGROUND: Few reports have described the ophthalmic complications that occur after maxillary orthognathic surgery. Since cases of decreased reflex tearing after maxillary orthognathic surgery are extremely rare, we describe 2 cases of loss of reflex tearing after maxillary orthognathic surgery. CASE PRESENTATION: Two Asian women, an 18-year-old and a 32-year-old, suffered from unilateral dryness and irritation caused by maxillary orthognathic surgery. In both patients, Schirmer test (II) showed reduced reflex tearing in 1 eye. Computed tomography showed that the pterygoid plate had been fractured in both patients. CONCLUSIONS: The pterygopalatine ganglion and its associated fibers in the pterygopalatine fossa may be injured during Le Fort osteotomy. BioMed Central 2014-03-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3974743/ /pubmed/24673800 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2415-14-37 Text en Copyright © 2014 Kang et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
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title_fullStr Loss of reflex tearing after maxillary orthognathic surgery: a report of two cases
title_full_unstemmed Loss of reflex tearing after maxillary orthognathic surgery: a report of two cases
title_short Loss of reflex tearing after maxillary orthognathic surgery: a report of two cases
title_sort loss of reflex tearing after maxillary orthognathic surgery: a report of two cases
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3974743/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24673800
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