The author presented a clinical review on 38 cases of unilateral exophthalmos who were entered to Taegu Dong San Presbyterian Hospital from Jan. to Mar. 1974. The results obtained are summarized as followings:
There were no prominent predilection between male and female. The age incidence was highest in teenage group (21.1%) and followed by fifth decade (18.50%). The degree of exophthalmos calculated , with Hertelos exophthalmometer ranged from two mm up to 13mm, and 12 cases (31. 1%) of five mm were the largest group. Those cases with marked exophthalmos had mostly unilateral orbital tumor. The duration of exophthalmos of this series were between 24 hours and 10 years range, the cases of less than six months were caused exceedingly by inflammatory diseases, but the cases with tumor origin has had history of longer than one year duration. Among the various etiology of this study, tumor was the principal cause, and the next in order were inflammatory, metabolic and vascular origin.
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