title: Diameter of normal extraocular recti muscles with echography.
abstract: To establish the range of diameters of normal extraocular muscles, we used standardized A-scan echography to measure the superior recti/levator complex, medial, lateral, and inferior recti muscles in 38 subjects with healthy orbital tissues. The relationships of age, gender, height, and weight to axial length of the globe were considered. These factors and extraocular muscle diameters were not consistently associated. Our normative data were compared with previously reported studies of extraocular muscle diameter performed with standardized A-scan and contact B-scan echography and computed tomographic scanning.
authors.affiliation: Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida 33101.
authors.forename: S F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Byrne
authors.forename: E K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Gendron
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Glaser
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Feuer
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Atta
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001827:Body Height; D001835:Body Weight; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D012016:Reference Values; D012737:Sex Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography