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Patients with high myopia may develop a myopathy which frequently results in a sort of convergent strabismus fixus. Echographic and CT scan findings give evidence that a myopathic paralysis of the lateral rectus is supported by a slow pressure on this muscle squeezed between the lateral orbital wall and the enlarged eyeball.
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Bagolini, B., Tamburrelli, C., Dickmann, A. et al. Convergent strabismus fixus in high myopic patients. Doc Ophthalmol 74, 309–320 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00145815
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