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Enophthalmos

Alexey Kryvenko, medical expert
Last reviewed: 07.07.2025

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Enophthalmos is a displacement of the eye into the orbit, often weakly expressed. The mechanisms of enophthalmos are as follows:

Structural abnormalities of the orbital walls, post-traumatic, such as rupture or congenital fractures of the inferior wall.
Atrophy of the orbital contents may be secondary: after irradiation, with scleroderma, or as a result of finger piercing (oculodigital sign) in blind newborns.
Orbital lesions associated with scarring, such as metastatic sclerotic carcinoma or chronic sclerosing orbital inflammation.

Pseudoenophthalmos occurs with microphthalmos or subatrophy of the eye.

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What do need to examine?

eye socket

Eye

How to examine?

Eye examination

X-ray of the eye socket