Surgery for Graves eye disease by Dr Anthony Maloof, Sydney.

This patient required correction for bulging eyes after Graves disease. Dr Anthony Maloof offered and undertook stereotactic orbital decompression to the left eye socket. So what is stereotactic surgery? This is one amazing piece of technology that allows the surgeon (me) to operate with sub-millimetre accuracy. Have a close look to the image, and note …

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Thyroid eye disease

 This lady booked into the clinic, blind from thyroid eye disease and using a cane. I undertook an urgent orbital decompression, and radiotherapy. The path to correction takes about 18 months, as happened with this patient. She now has 20/20 vision and can return to her work in the visual arts. And I think she …

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Pterygium grow from the white of the eye over the coloured part of the eye. Mostly they arise from the nose and grow outwards, but they can do the reverse, and grow from the outside in, and some people can have both of them. This lady in her 50’s had pterygia on both sides of …

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Radiation puts a hole in the wall of the eye This man received radiation treatment for a pterytgium 20 years earlier. Over time, the radiation caused the wall of the eye to melt, and a dark patch appeared where radiation was applied. This dark patch is actually the colour inside the eye, which has now …

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Pterygium Broad

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Pterygium Long

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