Correction of Excyclotropia by Surgery on the Inferior Rectus Muscle in Patients with Thyroid Eye Disease: A Retrospective, Observational Study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To examine the characteristics of excyclotropia correction through surgery on the inferior rectus muscle in patients with thyroid eye disease.

Methods

This was a retrospective, observational study at a single institution. We reviewed 36 patients who had undergone unilateral inferior rectus muscle recession, with or without nasal inferior rectus muscle transposition. The following factors were investigated as possibly influencing excyclotropia correction: inferior rectus muscle thickness, degree of adipose change in the inferior rectus muscle, smoking status, history of orbital radiotherapy, and the amount of inferior rectus muscle recession. Using T1-weighted coronal magnetic resonance imaging, we measured the cross-sectional area of the inferior rectus muscle at its

SUBMITTER: Takahashi Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4951151 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature