The transantral orbital decompression (Ogura technique) as performed by the ophthalmologist: a series of 24 patients.

Previous reports of transantral-ethmoidal orbital decompression (Ogura technique) have been published by head and neck surgeons. This is a series of patients who have been operated on and followed by the author, an ophthalmologist. The results, complications, and techniques involved in this surgery are discussed. The feasibility and desirability of the ophthalmologist performing this procedure are considered, as it is the ophthalmologist, who is best able to evaluate the indications, results, and complications of this operation. Finally this paper shows that the cosmetic disfigurement alone, associated with exophthalmos, is a valid indication for the performance of the transantral-ethmoidal decompression.