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Orbital Fissures

Superior Orbital Fissure

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The gap between the lesser wing and greater wing is the superior orbital fissure, an elongated comma-shaped opening that tapers laterally with the following borders: medially, the sphenoid body; laterally, the frontal bone; above, the lesser wing of the sphenoid; and below, the medial edge of the orbital surface of the greater wing. This chapter discusses the normal anatomy of the superior orbital fissure and its relation to the orbital vicinity. CT and MRI serve as conjoined modalities for depicting the region of the orbital fissures.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Jack Rootman

  2. Division of Orbital and Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery, Stein and Doheny Eye Institutes, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Dan B. Rootman, Stefânia Diniz, Kelsey Roelofs, Liza Cohen & Claire S. Smith

  3. BFA ArtCenter College of Design, UBC Faculty of Medicine, Kelowna, BC, Canada

    Bruce Stewart

  4. Neuroradiology Unit, Radiology Department, Rambam Healthcare Medical Center, Haifa, Israel

    Ayelet Eran

  5. Department of Anatomy, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

    Ayelet Eran, Ben Kaplan & Assaf Marom

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  1. Orbital Ophthalmic Plastic & Lacrimal Surgery Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Guy Ben Simon

  2. Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel

    Gahl Greenberg

  3. Orbital Ophthalmic Plastic & Lacrimal Surgery Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel

    Daphna Prat

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Rootman, J. et al. (2021). Orbital Fissures. In: Ben Simon, G., Greenberg, G., Prat, D. (eds) Atlas of Orbital Imaging . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41927-1_5-1

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