Correlation Between Height and Width of Orbital Opening Among the Igbo Ethnic Group of Nigeria: A Radiologic Study

The orbit is roughly pyramidal in shape with the apex located posteriorly forming the optic canal and the base located anteriorly forming the orbital margin. The orbital margin has the form of a quadrilateral with rounded corners. The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between orbital height and width among the Igbo ethnic group of Nigeria. A total number of 350 radiographic films of subjects aged between less than one year and seventy nine years (

Key Words: orbital height, orbital width, correlation, Igbo ethnic group