Table 4.

Treatment results as assessed by computed tomography (CT) of the retrobulbar areas in the group of patients treated previously with intravenous steroid therapy (n = 101)

	Left eye after treatment completion—improvement	Right eye after treatment completion—improvement
Thickness of the superior rectus muscle	0/43 (0.0%)	0/43 (0.0%)
Thickness of the inferior rectus muscle	0/54 (0.0%)	0/48 (0.0%)
Thickness of the lateral rectus muscle	0/33 (0.0%)	0/28 (0.0%)
Thickness of the median rectus muscle	0/71 (0.0%)	0/68 (0.0%)
Fat tissue	1/21 (4.8%)	0/18 (0.0%)
Optic nerve	0/1 (0.0%)	0/0 (0.0%)
Lacrimal gland	0/1 (0.0%)	0/2 (0.0%)

numerator the number of patients with improvement, denominator the number of patients with particular symptoms at baseline