title: Graves' disease: measurement of the extraocular muscle thickness with the echobiometer.
abstract: The authors measured extraocular muscle thickness in normal subjects and in patients affected by Graves' disease, using a Sonomed A-2000 echobiometer (probe with 10-MHz frequency); Hertel's exophthalmometry was also performed. Statistically significant differences in muscle thickness between normals and patients were found. This technique seems to be sufficiently useful and reliable in extraocular thickness evaluation, showing data similar to those of the recent literature.
authors.affiliation: University Eye Clinic of Genoa, Italy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schenome
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Polizzi
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Buono
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ciurlo
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ciurlo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006111:Graves Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014463:Ultrasonography