Proptosis

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exophthalmos

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• The prognosis for vision in cats with proptosis is poor.
• Section: Overview Proptosis is displacement of the eyeball out of the eye socket, so that the eyelids are trapped behind the globe.
• Eye proptosis is a condition resulting in forward displacement and entrapment of the eye from behind by the eyelids.
• Ocular proptosis is an exaggerated exophthalmos that results when the globe is forced anteriorly beyond the bony orbital rim and the eyelids, with subsequent entrapment of the dorsal and ventral eyelids posterior to the globe (1,2,3).
• If for medical reasons the patient with optic neuropathy and proptosis is not a surgical , then radiation treatment can be done, but there will be little change in the proptosis.

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