A Comparative Study of Clinical vs. Digital Exophthalmometry Measurement Methods.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A number of orbital diseases may be evaluated based on the degree of exophthalmos, but there is still no gold standard method for the measurement of this parameter. In this study we compare two exophthalmometry measurement methods (digital photography and clinical) with regard to reproducibility and the level of correlation and agreement with measurements obtained with Computerized Tomography (CT) measurements.

Methods

Seventeen patients with bilateral proptosis and 15 patients with normal orbits diseases were enrolled. Patients underwent orbital CT, Hertel exophthalmometry (HE) and standardized frontal and side facial photographs by a single trained photographer. Exophthalmometry measurements with HE, the digital photographs and axial CT scans were obtained twice

SUBMITTER: Pereira TS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7125494 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature