Fluctuating left exophthalmos in a mature male Macaca fascicularis was
studied clinically utilizing the diagnostic modalities of A- and B-scan ultrasonography and
computerized tomography in addition to routine ophthalmic examination and radiography.
Laboratory results were suggestive of thyroid hypofunction. Clinical and histopathologic
observations were consistent with a diagnosis of dysthyroid orbitopathy, a condition
previously unreported in nonhuman primates and the most common cause of unilateral
exophthalmos in humans.
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