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Jaime Badilla, MD; Charles Haw, MD, FRCSC; Jack Rootman, MD, FRCSC

Arch Ophthalmol. 2007;125(12):1700-1702.

Many embolization procedures have been described for the treatment of cavernous dural fistulas, including direct superior ophthalmic vein cannulation. Sometimes thrombosis of the superior ophthalmic vein or an anatomic variant will not allow its cannulation. Herein, we describe a case of a cavernous dural fistula in which an anteriorly narrowed and thrombosed superior ophthalmic vein was cannulated in the deep orbit through a lateral orbitotomy.

Author Affiliations: Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences (Drs Badilla and Rootman), Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery (Dr Haw), and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Dr Rootman), University of British Columbia and the Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, Canada.