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Calcification Apparatus

of the Trochlear of the Orbit: CT

Appearance and Age

and Association

with Diabetes

.....

Blame L. Hart1 Jon A. Spar1 William

W. Orrison,

Jr.1’2

OBJECTIVE. the

Calcification

trochlear

superior

apparatus

oblique

calcifications

tendon

MATERIALS of diabetes,

duration

of

sometimes

the

orbit,

be

the

and its sheath

AND METHODS. to identify

were

can

of diabetes,

detecting

from

medical

a trochlear

associations

of age,

RESULTS.

of trochlear type

charts

sex,

Trochlear

and

diabetes

calcifications

reviewed

used

logistic

trochlear present

in the

through

region which

of the

of trochlear

CT scans of the orbit in The presence

presence

patients.

with were

and

of 139

and

scans

associations

calcifications.

of therapy,

calcification

on CT structure

We retrospectively

the presence

determined

observed

cartilaginous

pass. We evaluated

with age and diabetes.

159 patients athy

of

We

or absence

or absence

of neurop-

calculated

the

regression

to

odds

evaluate

ratio the

calcification. in seven

of the

24 diabetic

patients

and in 10 of the 1 15 nondiabetic patients. The odds ratio for detecting trochlear calcifications in diabetic vs nondiabetic patients was 4.3 (p < .01). Logistic regression showed univariate associations with trochlear calcification for both increasing age (p < .001)

and

diabetes

mellitus

(p

.01).