Endoscopic Optic Canal Decompression.

Seo, Jin Su; Kim, Seong Ju; Park, Yeong Gel; Cho, Jae Shik

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1998;39(1):197-203.
Published online January 1, 1998.

Endoscopic Optic Canal Decompression.

Jin Su Seo, Seong Ju Kim, Yeong Gel Park, Jae Shik Cho

¹Department of Ophthalmology, Chonnam University Medical School, Kwangju, Korea.
²Department of Otolaryngology, Chonnam University Medical School, Kwangju, Korea.

내시경적 시신경관 감압술

서진수(Jin Su Seo),김성주(Seong Ju Kim),박영걸(Yeong Gel Park),조재식(Jae Shik Cho)

Abstract

The visual loss owing to acute optic nerve injury after blunt head trauma has been reported about 5% at the incidence. But it has been real circumstances that we still don`t have the exact knowlege about surgical indication, operation time and steroid dosage for this candidate. Lately, endoscopic surgery was introduced for treatment of orbital disease instead of classic external approach and we have performed and report endoscoic endonasal optic canal decompression followed by megadose steroid injection in 5 patients who experienced visual loss due to optic canal fracture following trauma.

Key Words: Endoscopic endonasal optic canal decompression;Optic canal fracture;Megadose steroid