Clinical and Radiological Findings in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Graves’ Ophthalmopathy

Table 2

Comparisons of GO patients and controls for MRI examination findings of EOM.

	Left eye			Right eye
	Patients (n = 36)	Controls (n = 23)		Patients (n = 36)	Controls (n = 23)
Mean short diameter (cm)
Medial rectus	0.39	0.37	0.34	0.40	0.37	0.23
Inferior rectus	0.46	0.40	0.06	0.47	0.42	0.15
Lateral rectus	0.34	0.35	0.83	0.34	0.29	0.44
Superior rectus	0.36	0.34	0.35	0.35	0.33	0.67
Superior oblique	0.28	0.26	0.31	0.29	0.26	0.13
Inferior oblique	0.24	0.22	0.23	0.24	0.23	0.55
Mean long diameter (cm)
Medial rectus	0.90	0.92	0.55	0.92	0.91	0.63
Inferior rectus	0.86	0.80	0.20	0.86	0.82	0.24
Lateral rectus	0.96	0.94	0.94	0.95	0.91	0.49
Superior rectus	0.86	0.86	0.59	0.84	0.86	0.59
Superior oblique	0.58	0.50	0.001	0.57	0.52	0.15
Inferior oblique	0.60	0.74	0.002	0.62	0.79	0.001
Cross-sectional area (cm^2)
Medial rectus	0.27	0.26	0.49	0.28	0.27	0.39
Inferior rectus	0.31	0.26	0.13	0.32	0.27	0.18
Lateral rectus	0.79	0.24	0.71	0.26	0.20	0.32
Superior rectus	0.24	0.22	0.32	0.22	0.22	0.72
Superior oblique	0.12	0.10	0.32	0.13	0.10	0.11
Inferior oblique	0.12	0.13	0.30	0.12	0.14	0.12
Signal intensity
Medial rectus	3.49	3.56	0.95	3.52	3.54	0.36
Inferior rectus	4.03	3.50	0.16	4.08	3.43	0.10
Lateral rectus	3.68	3.83	0.73	3.61	3.65	0.73
Superior rectus	3.79	3.46	0.12	3.74	3.44	0.36
Superior oblique	3.97	3.51	0.09	4.11	3.43	0.01
Inferior oblique	3.45	3.19	0.42	3.28	3.15	0.83

Ratio to the reference signal intensity of temporal muscle at the same side.