Significance of orbital fatty tissue for exophthalmos in thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 240, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 515-520

  Nishida, Yasuhiro ^a   Tian, S ^b   Isberg, Bengt ^c   Tallstedt, Leif ^d   Lennerstrand, Gunnar ^b  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c Läkarhuset Odenplan ^*  (Sweden)

^d ST ERIK S EYE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOCRINE OPHTHALMOPATHY; EXOPHTHALMOS; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE MASS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE; THICKNESS; THYROID DISEASE; TISSUE SLICE;

EID: 0036946629     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-002-0498-3     Document Type: Article

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