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

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.