Title: Orbital disease : present status and future challenges /
Authors: Rootman, Jack.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Orbital Diseases; Eye-sockets Diseases.; Orbital Diseases Congresses.
Abstract: Summarizing discussions from the Vancouver Orbital Symposium, this reference assembles recent perspectives from world renowned orbital specialists, pathologists, radiologists, and scientists to highlight advances and challenges in the diagnosis and management of orbital disease-covering recent aspects of orbital inflammatory and infectious disorders, issues in oncology, thyroid disease, and orbital vascular disorders, as well as topics concerning the future of imaging and orbital surgery.
Contents: Orbital inflammatory disease: classification and new insights -- Changing paradigms in the treatment of inflammatory disorders -- Bacterial infections of the orbit: current status and future challenges -- Inflammation: definitions, regulatory mechanisms, and contributions to disease -- Future and emerging treatments for microbial infections -- Oncology -- Science and value of lymphoma classification -- Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma -- Epithelial lacrimal gland tumors: pathologic classification and current understanding -- Chemotherapy of epithelial lesions: new approaches and directions -- Malignant lacrimal gland tumors -- Management of optic nerve sheath and sphenoid wing meningiomas -- Gliomas of the anterior visual pathway -- Stereotactic radiotherapy for optic nerve and meningeal lesions -- Thyroid orbitopathy -- Pathogenesis of Graves' ophthalmopathy -- Thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy: principal antigens and significance of corresponding antibodies -- Phenotypic attributes of orbital fibroblasts underlie their susceptibility in Graves' disease -- Somatostatin analogs in ophthalmic and orbital disease: a rationale for their use -- Predictors of disease severity in thyroid-related orbitopathy -- Prognostic factors -- Relationship between thyroid disorders and orbitopathy, including management factors -- Monitoring activity of Graves' ophthalmopathy -- VISA classification for thyroid-related orbitopathy -- Current medical management of thyroid orbitopathy -- Surgical paradigms in the management of thyroid orbitopathy -- Graves' orbitopathy: new and future treatment -- Management controversies and preferences in thyroid orbitopathy: panel discussion and question period -- Vascular intervention -- New technique in managing distensible venous vascular malformations of the orbit -- Vascular intervention: current and future opportunities -- Future of imaging in orbital disease -- Future of orbital surgery.