Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of all subjects.

	No	Age (year-old)	Gender	Surgery	Origin of specimen	Thyroid disease	Clinical activity score	Thyroid function	Treatment history	Systemic diseases
GO	1	48	Male	Strabismus surgery	Temporal portion of orbit	Graves’ disease	1	Normal	Steroid puls therapy, radiation	None
	2	70	Male	Strabismus surgery	Temporal portion of orbit	Graves’ disease	0	High thyroid antibody	Thiamazole	T2DM, HT
	3	75	Male	Strabismus surgery	Temporal portion of orbit	Graves’ disease	0	Normal	Steroid puls therapy, radiation	None
	4	51	Male	Strabismus surgery	Temporal portion of orbit	Graves’ disease	1	Normal	Steroid puls therapy, radiation, thiamazole	None
	5	69	Female	Strabismus surgery	Temporal portion of orbit	Graves’ disease	0	Normal	Steroid puls therapy, radiation	HT
Non-GO	1	61	Female	Strabismus surgery	Temporal portion of orbit	None	0	Normal	None	None
	2	59	Male	Orbital fat herniation	Superior temporal portion of orbit	None	0	Normal	None	None
	3	69	Male	Orbital fat herniation	Superior temporal portion of orbit	None	0	Normal	None	HT
	4	69	Male	Orbital fat herniation	Superior temporal portion of orbit	None	0	Normal	None	HT
	5	81	Male	Orbital fat herniation	Superior temporal portion of orbit	None	0	Normal	None	HT

T2DM: type 2 diabetes, HT: hypertension.