Table of Contents
Frontmatter — CONTENTS — I. INTRODUCTION — Preface and overview — Introduction — II. BASIC RESEARCH AND DIAGNOSTIC METHODS — The orbit, some anatomical details — Microsurgical anatomy of the ophthalmic artery — The topography of the orbit as demonstrated by High- Resolution Computed Tomography and multiplanar reconstructions — MRI of the orbit and optic chiasm — MR imaging of space-occupying lesions in the orbit — MRI in lesions of the visual pathway and surrounding structures — Single photon emission tomography of the cranium — Videoangiography - a new technique for the quantification of the Retinal circulation — Measurement-based, reproducible ultrasonography of the orbit — The possible value of Visual Evoked Potentials (VEP) in neurosurgical patients with tumors afflicting the visual pathway (a critical discussion) — III. TUMORS OF THE ORBIT AND THE VISUAL PATHWAY — Tumours of intracranial visual pathways — Orbital Invasion by Intraocular Tumours — Reconstructive surgery of the Orbital Region — Hemangiomas in the periorbital region of infants and children — Transconjunctival excision of retrobulbar cavernous hemangiomas — Primary Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas of the Orbit — Radiation Therapy of Malignant Lymphoma of the Eye and Orbit — Acute hemorrhage and ischemic necrosis in pituitary adenomas - Pituitary Apoplexy — Visual Disturbances in Childhood caused by Craniopharyngiomas — Optic nerve glioma — IV GRAVE'S OPHTHALMOPATHY — CT-diagnosis in Grave's disease — Orbital Decompression in severe Graves' Ophthalmopathy - Indication and Results in 110 operations — Extended pterional decompression of the orbit: An alternative treatment in endocrine orbitopathy — Results of surgical orbital decompression in Graves' disease — Long-term study of endocrine ophthalmopathy (A retrospective observation of 297 patients) — V. CAROTID CAVERNOUS FISTULA - DISTURBANCES OF CIRCULATION — Carotid Cavernous Fistula: Anatomical Clinical correlations and Clinical Signs — Ophthalmological problems in patients with spontaneous AV-Fistulas affecting the orbit — Dopplersonographic Findings in Retinal Stroke and Chronic Ocular Ischemia - Their Pathogenetic Implications — Quantitative video-fluorescenceangiography: Retinal circulation in internal carotid occlusion — Amaurosis fugax: Sonographic findings and follow-up — Hemodymanic in central vein occlusion — VI. TRAUMATIC LESIONS — Periorbital comminuted Fractures and their Relationship to the Facial Bones — Primary and secondary reconstruction in the case of interdisciplinary surgical management of combined cranio-facial injuries — Clinical and otolaryngological considerations of skull base injuries with special regard to bone plate fixation — Restoration of eye motility in orbital floor fractures — Classification and therapy of orbital floor fractures — Functional results achieved by the surgical management of blow-out fractures — Transethmoidal decompression of the optic nerve in the case of craniocerebral trauma — AUTHOR'S INDEX — SUBJECT INDEX
