title: [Treatment of thyroid ophthalmopathies by external orbital radiotherapy].
abstract: From January, 1977, through December 1983, 62 patients with thyroid edematous ophthalmopathy were given external orbital radiotherapy according to S.S. Donaldson's technique: 5,5 MV photons produced by a linear accelerator were used to irradiate the muscular conus, with a total of 20 grays in 10 sessions over 2 weeks. Good results were obtained in 46 patients (77%). This simple therapy may be a first choice in recent ophthalmopathy.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D005260:Female; D006111:Graves Disease / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009915:Orbit; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013959:Thyroid Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D013967:Thyroiditis, Autoimmune / Q000150:complications
vernacular_title: Le traitement des ophtalmopathies thyroïdiennes par la radiothérapie orbitaire externe.