Posts tagged TAO
How many physical signs you know about thyroid associated ophthalmopathy?
Jan 1st
How many physical signs you know about thyroid associated ophthalmopathy?
Here they are: Ballet’s, Boston’s, Cowen’s, Dalrymple’s, Eniroth’s, Gellinch’s, Gifford’s, Goffroy’s, Knies’, Griffith’s, Kocher’s, Loewi’s, Mean’s, Mobius’s, Payne/Trousseau’s, Pochin’s, Riesman’s, Rosenbach’s, Sainton’s, Snellen/Donder’s, Suker’s, Stellwag’s, Vigouroux’s, von Graefe’s, Wilder’s. The most important signs of TAO are:
- eyelid retraction and lag. Has the meaning of diagnosis.
- soft tissue involvement
- exophthalmos or proptosis
- extraocular musle involvement
- globe subluxation
- cornel involvement
- optic nerve involvement
- increasing intraocular tenson