title: Correlation between NMR scans of extraocular muscles and clinical symptoms in Graves' ophthalmopathy.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Academic Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Troelstra
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Rijneveld
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Kooijman
authors.forename: W A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Houtman
mesh_terms: D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000473:pathology; D006111:Graves Disease / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles / Q000473:pathology*