Graves' ophthalmopathy. An unusual course

A patient with an unusual course of Graves' ophthalmopathy is presented; serial computed tomographic scanning of the orbits was used to follow the course of the eye disease. Right-sided unilateral ophthalmopathy first developed two years after thyroid ablation with radioactive iodine and was followed by complete resolution two years later. The remission of this patient's eye disease was short-lived; within eight months, unilateral ophthalmopathy affected the left eye, and ophthalmopathy recurred in the right eye a few months later. Current hypotheses do not readily explain the course of this patient's ophthalmopathy.