Issues of rehabilitation of the patients with symblepharon using oral mucosal autografts.

Purpose: To systematize clinical variants of symblepharon and to analyze rehabilitation availability boundaries in patients with different forms of symblepharons.

Methods: Retrospective analysis of clinical cases included 26 patients with local, subtotal, and total symblepharon (ankyloblepharon) with a normal or anophthalmic orbit. In all patients, symblepharon was operated using split- or full-thickness oral mucosal autografts and their fixation with U-shaped stitches and compression plates.

A Novel Method for Complex Diagnostics of Globes' Position.

Spiral computed tomography is a gold standard in diagnostics of intraorbital pathological changes. Modern software provides great opportunities at viewing and analyzing DICOM files. Earlier, the authors introduced a method of computed exophthalmometry for precise measurement of globes' position even in the cases of lateral orbital rim fracture.

Computed exophthalmometry is an accurate and reproducible method for the measuring of eyeballs' protrusion.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to assess reproducibility of the repeated measurements from proposed computed exophthalmometry and to make a comparison with the Hertel exophthalmometer.

Methods: Computed tomography scans of patients with pathological (group 1) and intact orbits (group 2) were included in this retrospective study. In both groups, a single investigator measured a difference of eyeballs' protrusion using the proposed method of computed exophthalmometry.