Session 5 - Optic shizzle Flashcards
What makes up the roof of the orbit?
The frontal and sphenoid bones
What makes up the floor of the orbit?
The maxilla, zygomatic and palatine bone
What makes up the medial side of the orbit?
The ethmoid, maxilla and lacrimal bones
What makes up the lateral side of the orbit
Zygomatic and sphenoid
Where do fractures of the orbit occur?
At sutures
Often in the medial and inferior walls
Why are the medial and inferior walls vulnerable to fracture?
Walls are thin
What do medial wall fractures involve?
Ethmoidal and sphenoidal sinus
What do inferior wall fractures involve?
Maxillary sinus
What is a blow-out fracture?
A fracture that displaces the orbital wall and contents
What are three of the main features of orbital fractures?
Muscle entrapment
Diplopia
Infection
What is enopthalmos?
Depression of the eye
Why would enopthalmos present with a pulsating, pushed out eye?
Infraorbital bleeding has that effect
What are the two main fissures and fossae of the orbit?
The optic canal and the superior orbital fissure
What is found in the optic canal
The optic nerve
What is found in the superior orbital fissure (7)
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Lacrima nerve
Frontal nerve
Trochlear Nerve (CN IV)
Superior branch of Oculomotor Nerve (CN III)
Nasociliary Nerve
Inferior Branch of the Oculomotor Nerve (CN III)
Abducens Nerve (CN VI)
Opthalmic Veins
Sympathetic Nerves
How many axons come from the retinal cells?
1.2 million
What are the three main coverings of the optic nerve?
The Pia, Arachnoid and the dura mater
How can infection of the orbit effect the brain?
Infection can track backwards along the optic nerve, to the menininges where it can cause meningitis
What two structures travel with the optic nerve?
Central artery and vein
Give a potential cause of papilloedema (swelling of the optic disc) to do with veins
Raised ICP can lead to venous engorgement, leading to papilloedeme
Name the seven extraocular muscles of the eye
Lateral, medial, superior and inferior recti
Superior and inferior obliques
Levator palpabrae superiorus
What does adduction of the eye do?
Causes it to look medial
What does abduction of the eye do?
Caues it took look laterally
What is the innervation of the extraocular muscles?
o Lateral Rectus Cranial Nerve 6 Abducens o Superior Oblique Cranial Nerve 4 Trochlear o All the Rest Cranial Nerve 3 Oculomotor