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- Title
Orbital exenteration after transarterial embolization in a patient with Wyburn-Mason syndrome: Pathological findings.
- Authors
Toshihiko Matsuo; Hiroyuki Yanai; Kenji Sugiu; Susumu Tominaga; Yoshihiro Kimata
- Abstract
Abstract Background We present the pathological findings at orbital exenteration in a patient with Wyburn-Mason syndrome who underwent transarterial embolization. Case A 31-year-old man with a 10-year history of gradual exacerbation of left exophthalmos and left cheek swelling was found to have facial and orbital arteriovenous malformations on the left side. There was no vascular malformation in the brain. The feeding arteries derived from the left internal maxillary artery, facial artery, and ophthalmic artery. He underwent several courses of transarterial embolization of the feeding arteries from the left internal maxillary artery and then from the facial artery, resulting in no reduction of the arteriovenous malformation. He finally elected to undergo ophthalmic artery embolization in the expectation of a reduction and with the understanding that he would lose sight in his left eye. Two years later, he requested lid-sparing orbital exenteration and reconstruction with cutaneous flap transfer and prosthesis for cosmetic reasons. Observations Pathologically, orbital vascular channels of varying sizes were filled with embolizing glue and had degenerating vascular wall cells surrounded by inflammatory cell infiltration. The central retinal artery in the optic nerve was also filled with the embolizing glue, and the retina lost the ganglion cell layer and inner nuclear layer but maintained the outer nuclear layer and outer segments. Conclusions Marked anastomoses and hence incomplete embolization among the feeding arteries of facial and orbital vascular malformations in Wyburn-Mason syndrome do not respond well to attempts at feeding vessel embolization, which result in unsuccessful closure of the malformation.
- Subjects
TREATMENT of eye diseases; THERAPEUTIC embolization; EYE-sockets; EXOPHTHALMOS; CEREBRAL arteriovenous malformations; ARTERIES; PROSTHETICS; OPTIC nerve
- Publication
Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology, 2008, Vol 52, Issue 4, p308
- ISSN
0021-5155
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10384-008-0563-5