Normal standards of eye projection in Turkish children 6 to 17 years of age

Abstract

Age- and gender-specific references for exophthalmos provide important information both for the clinical decision-making process, and screening in the diagnosis of abnormal or pathological conditions which result in exophthalmos.

Exophthalmometry value distribution in healthy Lithuanian children and adolescents

“…Comparing Caucasian race of American children and adolescents group with our children and adolescents eye proptosis measurements results are quite similar 17 . The ocular protrusion of children in our recent study tends to have higher exophthalmometric readings than those reported in Turkish, Indian children and adolescents 12, 15, 16. In an Indian juvenile population, the normal proptosis values were observed to be lower than other races studied 12 .…”

“…According to previous studies, in the majority of under-age persons from different ethnic origins, there was no significant difference between eyes and the relative protrusion value was below than 2 mm 5, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. Kara study also found that the mean relative protrusion was 0.43 mm for girls and 0.48 mm for boys 15 . Therefore, the relative ocular protrusion value of up to 2.0 mm in the absence of other pathological findings could be considered as normal.…”

“…Among different ethnic groups Lithuanian children and adolescents have similar ocular protrusion with Chinese,8, 11 Arabs, 9 Iranian, 14 Turkish,15, 16 black Congolese (except for teenagers from 15 to 18 years old) 10 . Comparing Caucasian race of American children and adolescents group with our children and adolescents eye proptosis measurements results are quite similar 17 .…”

“…There are well established data in the literature in terms of upper and lower limits of proptosis values for different anthropological groups. Studies have been carried out in the past on various countries children and adolescents: Danish, 6 Italians 7 Chinese,8, 11 Arabian, 9 Black Congolese, 10 Indians, 12 Turkish,13, 15, 16 Iranian, 14 American5, 17 (Table 2).…”

0-18 yaş çocuk ve adolesanlarda büyüme eğrileri

“…Bu çal›flmada, ülkemizde ilk kez 6-18 yafl grubundaki beden ya¤ yüzdesi persentilleri ve ekzoftalmi referans de¤erleri hesapland›. [14,15] Obezitede metabolik ve kardiyovasküler hastal›lar aç›s›ndan BKI'nin yan›nda bel çevresinin de de¤erlendirilmesi gere¤i art›k yayg›n kabul görmektedir. [16,17] Bel çevresi beden üst k›sm›nda biriken ya¤, metabolik ve kardiyovaskü-ler hastal›klar aç›s›ndan önemli bir tan› ve prognoz belirleyicisidir.…”