Clinical Study

Evaluation of Ocular Versions in Graves’ Orbitopathy: Correlation between the Qualitative Clinical Method and the Quantitative Photographic Method

Table 2

Agreement between qualitative clinical categories and quantitative photographic measurements of version in 3 positions of gaze (depression in abduction, depression, and depression in adduction) in a sample of 42 patients with GO.

VersionQualitativeQuantitative (°) mean (SD) value

Depression in abductionNormal
(n = 75)
57.14 (9.78)0.573
Moderate alteration
|(n = 9)
59.31 (12.12)

DepressionNormal
(n = 80)
54.09 (9.78)0.468
Moderate alteration
(n = 4)
59.31 (6.89)

Depression in adductionNormal
(n = 78)
62.87 (10.95)0.268
Moderate alteration
(n = 6)
68.43 (8.04)

 = Student’s t-test for independent samples. Normal = no hypofunction; moderate alteration = hypofunction from −1 to −2.