Ethmoidal sinus mucocele: an unusual cause of acquired Brown syndrome
- Jules Stein Eye Institute, University of California Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Correspondence to: Arthur L Rosenbaum MD, Jules Stein Eye Institute, 100 Stein Plaza, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7002, USA; rosenbaumjsei.ucla.edu
- Accepted 20 December 2004
Brown syndrome was first characterised in 1950 by Harold Whaley Brown as a restrictive limitation to elevation in adduction.1 On the basis of surgical findings Brown implicated a shortened superior oblique (SO) tendon sheath as the cause of this syndrome. Most subsequent reports have alternatively proposed an abnormality in the trochlear-SO tendon complex as the cause of restriction to elevation in adduction. Although various causes of acquired Brown syndrome have been described, its association with ethmoidal mucocele is very rare.
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