Eye and Eye movements Flashcards
What vessels exit the Optic Canal?
CN II
Opthalmic A.
What structures pass through the Inferior Orbital Fissure?
Maxillary N.
Infraorbital A.
Zygomatic N. (V2)
What bone of the orbit is normally involved in an orbital blowout fracture?
Maxillary B.
What are some consequences of an orbital blowout fracture?
Diplopia (eyes not aligned)
Globe ptosis (eyeball falling through orbit)
Exophthalmos
What is the movement of the eyeball around the AP axis?
Intorsion (medial rotation)
Extorsion (Lateral rotation)
What extra-ocular muscles abduct the eyeball?
Superior Oblique
Inferior Oblique
Lateral Rectus
What extra-ocular muscles adduct the eyeball?
Superior Rectus
Inferior Rectus
Medial Rectus
What extra-ocular muscles are involved in bilateral eyeball depression?
Superior Oblique M.
Inferior Rectus M.
What extra-ocular muscles are involved in bilateral eyeball elevation?
Superior Rectus M.
Inferior Oblique M.
What nerves pass through the common tendinous ring of the orbit?
Superior/Inferior divisions of CN III
Nasociliary N.
Abducens CN VI
Optic CN II
A patient who is unable to look laterally with the L eye but is still able to perform all other ocular movements most likely has what disorder? What muscle is affected?
Abducens CN VI
Lateral Rectus M.
In a patient with CN IV palsy, what muscle is affected? How will the patient compensate?
Superior Oblique M.
Pt will turn head down and away from the affected side
When would a patient complain the most of diplopia if they have trochlear palsy?
When they have downward gaze (reading)
A patient presents with L eye looking down and out, droopy eyelid, and pupil dilation, what cranial nerve has been affected?
Oculomotor N.
Aneurysms of posterior cerebral A., posterior communicating A., and superior cerebellar A. can compress the Oculomotor N, affecting what autonomic division?
Parasympathetic