[Total orbitoplasty].

In injuries, removal of tumours and infections of the orbit the exenteration of the orbit may become necessary, sometimes even with sacrificing the eyelids. After healing of the orbital disorder the task of the orbitoplasty consists in rebuilding an orbit fit for a prosthesis; when the eyelids have to be reconstructed too, we speak of a total orbitoplasty. Further difficulties arise for the plastic surgeon, when the disorders or/and their treatment are followed by an open communication with the nasal hole and its paranasal sinuses.

[Complications in the paranasal sinuses due to surgery via the ethmoidal labyrinth (author's transl)].

An analysis of 174 relevant cases of operations via ethmoidal labyrinth shows that there are no more frequent complications of the paranasal sinuses postoperatively. We found only 5 immediate and 4 indirect postoperative complications; the aims of operation were the orbit and the sella turcica.