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Open Access Maced J Med Sci. 2019 Jun 15; 7(11):1825-1827. 1825
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Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences. 2019 Jun 15; 7(11):1825-1827.
https://doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2019.487
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Case Report
Incomitant Exotropia After Nasal Polyp Surgery
Ni Made Ayu Surasmiati
*
, Ni Made Wasiastiti Budi, AAA Sukartini Djelantik, Ni Made Laksmi Utari, Putu Yuliawati, Ni Made
Ari Suryathi
Ophtalmology Department, Udayana University, Faculty of Medicine, Sanglah Hospital, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
Citation: Surasmiati NMA, Budi NMW, Djelantik AAA S,
Utari NML, Yuliawati P, Suryathi NMA. Incomitant
Exotropia after Nasal Polyp Surgery. Open Access Maced
J Med Sci. 2019 Jun 15; 7(11):1825-1827.
https://doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2019.487
Keywords: Incomitant; Exotropia; Nasal Polyp
*Correspondence: Ni Made Ayu Surasmiati.
Ophthalmology Department, Udayana University Faculty
of Medicine Sanglah Hospital, Denpasar, Bali - Indonesia.
E-mail: agrasidi01@gmail.com
Received: 21-Apr-2019; Revised: 25-May-2019;
Accepted: 26-May-2019; Online first: 14-Jun-2019
Copyright: © 2019 Ni Made Ayu Surasmiati, Ni Made
Wasiastiti Budi, AAA Sukartini Djelantik, Ni Made Laksmi
Utari, Putu Yuliawati, Ni Made Ari Suryathi. This is an
open-access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0
International License (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Funding: This research did not receive any financial
support
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no
competing interests exist
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Incomitant exotropia is one of ocular complication that has been reported after intranasal
surgery. This case report aims to describe the causes of exotropia in a patient with a history of nasal polyp
surgery.
CASE PRESENTATION: A 50-years-old male, came with the main complaint of double vision 1 month after nasal
polyp surgery. He also complained his right eye turned outward. The visual acuity on the right eye was 6/7.5 with
his head turn to the left. On the examination, the Hirschberg test was XT 45°, and the Krimsky test > 95 ∆BI.
Duction and version test on the right eye were -4 adduction. There was no shifting on the cover-uncover test.
Ishihara test was within normal limit, and there was suppression on the right eye in WFDT. On force generation
test, we found limited adduction on the right eye and no restriction in force duction test. Head MRI showed
atrophy of medial recti on the right eye, 2.2 mm in size. The patient underwent vertical muscle transposition
procedure surgery, and it was found atrophy of medial recti without any rupture. Two months after surgery, the
double vision was decreased, the result of the Hirschberg test was XT 30° and Krimsky test 65°∆BI.
DISCUSSION: Nasal polyp surgery-related incomitant exotropia mostly caused by extraocular muscles rupture. In
this case, we found no rupture. Therefore, we suspected the abnormalities of muscles vascularisation, supported
by the atrophy of medial recti.
Introduction
A nasal polyp is a chronic inflammatory
process in the nasal mucosa, or paranasal sinuses
which characterised by edematous mass with
infection is the most important factor in this process.
Prevalence of polyp nasal in Indonesian was up to
4.63% of all register patient at Dr Soetomo Surabaya
Hospital. In the last ten years, sinus surgery
techniques that commonly used is Endoscopic, which
is commonly used for intranasal ethmoidectomy.
Besides the advantage, endoscopic had a risk to
damage the extraocular muscle, especially at
ethmoidal sinuses. The estimated rate of ocular injury
after intranasal sinus surgery is up to 3%. The most
common ocular complications after paranasal and
intranasal polyps' surgery such as extraocular muscle
rupture and extraocular muscle paralysis, vascular
disorders or extraocular muscle innervation,
microvascular infarction, chronic infection or
inflammation, tumour mass compression. Incomitant
exotropia is one of ocular complication that had been
reported after intranasal surgery [1], [2]. Incomitant
exotropia is a form of strabismus which is outward
deviation of the eyes with different angles of deviation
in different motion field. The most common caused is
due to paralysis or restriction [3], [4].
This case report aims to describe the causes
of exotropia in a patient with a history of nasal polyp
surgery.
Case Presentation
A 50-years old, male patient whose initial
presentation was a double vision in the past one
month after nasal polyp surgery, and it had been
getting worse. The right eye turned outward with
minimal blurry vision. History of trauma and
neurological disorder was denied.