Using morphologic parameters of extraocular muscles for diagnosis and follow-up of graves' ophthalmopathy: Diameters, areas, or volumes?

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 179, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1005-1010

  Szucs Farkas, Zsolt ^a   Toth, Judit ^a   Balazs, Erzsebet ^a   Galuska, Laszlo ^a   Burman, Kenneth D ^a   Karanyi, Zsolt ^a   Leovey, Andras ^a   Nagy, Endre V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A SCAN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOCRINE OPHTHALMOPATHY; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MUSCLE MASS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036784392     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.179.4.1791005     Document Type: Article

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