Orbital Venous Varices: A Rare Bilateral Asymptomatic Presentation

This report illustrates a case of asymptomatic bilateral orbital varices in a 64-year-old Caucasian male. The orbital varices were incidentally discovered while investigating the patient’s initial presentation of bilateral chorioretinal scars and optic nerve head drusen. Magnetic resonance imaging (...

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Autores principales: Pappas, Alexandros, Araque, Julio M, Sarup, Vimal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Ophthalmology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6349571/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30705795
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3302
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author Pappas, Alexandros
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description This report illustrates a case of asymptomatic bilateral orbital varices in a 64-year-old Caucasian male. The orbital varices were incidentally discovered while investigating the patient’s initial presentation of bilateral chorioretinal scars and optic nerve head drusen. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain and orbits with contrast confirmed the presence of bilateral varices of the inferior ophthalmic veins and pterygoid plexuses. The occurrence of bilateral orbital varices is quite rare, and few asymptomatic cases have been described in the literature.
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spelling pubmed-63495712019-01-31 Orbital Venous Varices: A Rare Bilateral Asymptomatic Presentation Pappas, Alexandros Araque, Julio M Sarup, Vimal Cureus Ophthalmology This report illustrates a case of asymptomatic bilateral orbital varices in a 64-year-old Caucasian male. The orbital varices were incidentally discovered while investigating the patient’s initial presentation of bilateral chorioretinal scars and optic nerve head drusen. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain and orbits with contrast confirmed the presence of bilateral varices of the inferior ophthalmic veins and pterygoid plexuses. The occurrence of bilateral orbital varices is quite rare, and few asymptomatic cases have been described in the literature. Cureus 2018-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6349571/ /pubmed/30705795 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3302 Text en Copyright © 2018, Pappas et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Pappas, Alexandros
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Orbital Venous Varices: A Rare Bilateral Asymptomatic Presentation
title Orbital Venous Varices: A Rare Bilateral Asymptomatic Presentation
title_full Orbital Venous Varices: A Rare Bilateral Asymptomatic Presentation
title_fullStr Orbital Venous Varices: A Rare Bilateral Asymptomatic Presentation
title_full_unstemmed Orbital Venous Varices: A Rare Bilateral Asymptomatic Presentation
title_short Orbital Venous Varices: A Rare Bilateral Asymptomatic Presentation
title_sort orbital venous varices: a rare bilateral asymptomatic presentation
topic Ophthalmology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6349571/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3302
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