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Jed H Assam1, Aaron M Miller2, Patricia Chevez-Barrios3
1Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston.
Abstract:
Most cases of strabismus have a chronic and stable or known etiologic diagnosis prior to surgery. In some cases, however, surgery is undertaken to correct a stable ocular misalignment without a definitive etiology. We present 2 cases, one with euthyroid Graves' orbitopathy and the other with amyloid light-chain amyloidosis, in which extraocular muscle biopsy performed intraoperatively allowed histopathologic confirmation of a clinical diagnosis.
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