Correlation between NMR scans of extraocular muscles and clinical symptoms in Graves' ophthalmopathy

A Troelstra; W J Rijneveld; A C Kooijman; W A Houtman

doi:10.1007/BF00154461

Correlation between NMR scans of extraocular muscles and clinical symptoms in Graves' ophthalmopathy

Doc Ophthalmol. 1988 Oct-Nov;70(2-3):243-9. doi: 10.1007/BF00154461.

Authors

A Troelstra¹, W J Rijneveld, A C Kooijman, W A Houtman

Affiliation

¹ Department of Ophthalmology, Academic Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands.

PMID: 3234192
DOI: 10.1007/BF00154461

Abstract

In an NMR study of the orbits of patients with Graves' ophthalmopathy a high degree of correlation was found between the severity of the clinical picture and the relative increase in muscular volume in the retrobulbar space.

Publication types

Comparative Study

MeSH terms

Eye Diseases / pathology
Graves Disease / pathology*
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy*
Oculomotor Muscles / pathology*