A CT of the orbit with coronal sections demonstrated a fracture of the orbital floor extending to the orbital apex with entrapment of the inferior rectus muscle (Figure 2). A hypotropia is typically ...

We present a patient who had an inferior rectus muscle entrapment as a result of sinus expansion by balloon catheterization for treating a compressed sinus fracture. A 39-year-old male was injured in ...

To identify the predictive factors for overcorrection and depression impairment after recession of the inferior rectus muscle (IRM) in patients with Graves’ orbitopathy. The charts of 124 consecutive ...

The inferior rectus muscle is located within the orbit (eye socket). It is one of six muscles that control the movements of the eye. The inferior rectus muscle moves the eyeball downward. It also ...

Four muscles attach to the surface of the eye and work together to move the eyeball in a vertical (upward) direction. Two of those muscles, the superior and inferior rectus, move the eye up and down ...