A 45-year-old man presented with precipitous loss of vision and rapidly changing field defects in one eye. Computerized tomography and B-scan ultrasonography revealed a small orbital mass adjacent to the optic nerve. This was removed via lateral orbitotomy. On pathologic examination it was diagnosed as a small orbital varix. Drs. Frederick C. Blodi and Stephen Trokel comment on the case.

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Multiplanar reconstruction in computed tomography of the orbit.

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Traumatic myelopathy in a seventeen-year-old child with cervical spinal stenosis (without fracture or dislocation) and a C2-C3 Klippel-Feil fusion. A case report.

A 17-year-old white male patient sustained a cervical hyperextension injury while body surfing. Plain cervical radiographs, tomography, and CAT scan showed neither fracture nor subluxation, but congenital narrowing of the spinal canal and fusion of C2-C3 (Klippel-Feil). Clinically, he had a central cord syndrome, characterized by a motor dominant myelopathy. The conservative management of this patient with a central cord injury in the presence of spinal stenosis and a Klippel-Feil syndrome resulted in almost full recovery although he was quadriplegic initially. This constellation of findings rarely has been reported in adolescence.

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Computed tomography of spinal epidural hematoma.

Three cases of spinal epidural hematoma are presented. Computed tomography (CT) was the first diagnostic method used in two patients and demonstrated a surgically confirmed spinal epidural hematoma in both patients. In a third patient who presented with a complete block on myelography, CT was helpful in assessment of the extent of the lesion and suggested a vertebral hemangioma as the cause of the hematoma. CT is a very useful tool in the diagnosis of spinal epidural hematomas.

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