Indications for orbital exenteration in mucormycosis.

Purpose: To determine whether evidence-based standards exist regarding the indications for orbital exenteration in patients with orbital mucormycosis.

Methods: A literature review was performed of 113 articles (1943 to 2004). Factors possibly related to patient survival were analyzed.

Brown's Syndrome in the absence of an intact superior oblique muscle.

Brown's Syndrome was initially described as a superior oblique tendon sheath syndrome-a short anterior tendon resulting in a restricted elevation of the globe in the nasal field. Brown believed that a congenital paralysis of the inferior oblique muscle resulted in this secondary shortening of the anterior sheath of the superior oblique tendon. The definition of Brown's Syndrome has changed over time.