[Ocular myopathies - cause of exophthalmia]

Oftalmologia. 2001;52(2):90-8.
[Article in Romanian]

Abstract

It presents the "thickenings" of the extraocular muscles that can cause exophthalmos. It makes the difference between myositis limited to the orbit and the systemic myopathies and endocrine myopathies.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Aged
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Exophthalmos / diagnostic imaging
  • Exophthalmos / etiology*
  • Exophthalmos / pathology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Muscular Diseases / complications*
  • Muscular Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Muscular Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Muscular Diseases / pathology
  • Oculomotor Muscles / pathology*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed