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Enlargement of extraocular muscles during treatment with amiodarone
1Institute of Clinical Neuroscience, Department of Ophthalmology, Göteborg University, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica
|June 1, 1997
Abstract:
A case of extraocular muscle enlargement diagnosed 2 months after the start of treatment with amiodarone is presented. The orbital CT scan was typical of endocrine ophthalmopathy. The patient had no history of hyperthyroidism and during a follow-up period of 2 years no laboratory evidence of irregularities in the thyroid hormone metabolism was discovered.