RESEARCH ARTICLE
Radiological Pitfalls in Patients with Inducible Dynamic Proptosis
Sharon R Morris 1, Jean-Louis DeSousa1, Ian Francis 2, Lekha Chandrasekharan2, Raman Malhotra1, *
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2008Volume: 2
First Page: 91
Last Page: 93
Publisher ID: TOOPHTJ-2-91
DOI: 10.2174/1874364100802010091
Article History:
Received Date: 12/2/2008Revision Received Date: 14/3/2008
Acceptance Date: 17/4/2008
Electronic publication date: 5/5/2008
Collection year: 2008

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Abstract
We report two patients presenting with marked clinical unilateral enophthalmos who had positional variability and dynamic proptosis on valsalva. On orbital imaging, enophthalmos was not documented and in fact, globe proptosis of the same side was reported for one of the patients. During CT and MRI scanning patients are often instructed to hold their breath to eliminate motion artefact. This may inadvertently induce dynamic proptosis. The radiological pitfalls of imaging patients with inducible dynamic proptosis and how to identify such patients are discussed.