{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T09:29:47Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 22.0, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a094f2-89ee-7912-89e0-549c05a58857\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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[Clinical definition](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18462475/)", "Record globe size and integrity to distinguish displacement from apparent recession caused by a small or shrunken globe. [Differential assessment](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK563300/)", "Separate posterior displacement from hypoglobus, which describes inferior globe displacement; both may coexist. [Positional distinctions](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK563300/)", "Establish whether the comparison eye is itself proptotic before interpreting asymmetry as enophthalmos. [Differential diagnosis](https://www.ophed.com/system/files/2009/07/enophthalmos-article-1795-1795.pdf)", "Do not equate isolated ptosis or a deep superior eyelid sulcus with confirmed posterior globe displacement. [Clinical assessment](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11562999/)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Confirmation status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "suspected | confirmed | apparent recession without confirmed displacement | indeterminate", "why_it_matters": "Separates an observed appearance from an established positional abnormality." }, { "name": "Laterality", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "right | left | bilateral", "why_it_matters": "Determines which eyes require characterization and whether inter-eye comparison can detect the state." }, { "name": "Globe projection", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mm for each eye, with instrument, anatomical reference, base setting where applicable, and examination date", "why_it_matters": "Makes observations interpretable and repeatable." }, { "name": "Relative posterior displacement", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mm relative to a named comparator, with an explicit sign convention", "why_it_matters": "Quantifies recession without assuming that the fellow eye provides a normal reference." }, { "name": "Reference validity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "usable | compromised | uncertain, with reason", "why_it_matters": "Altered orbital landmarks or an abnormal comparison eye can undermine interpretation." }, { "name": "Temporal course", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "newly observed | longstanding | progressive | stable | improving | unknown; onset and observation dates", "why_it_matters": "Separates recognition time from onset and supports assessment of change." }, { "name": "Additional displacement", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "vertical and horizontal displacement in mm where measured, with direction and reference", "why_it_matters": "Keeps posterior recession distinct from other components of globe malposition." }, { "name": "Mechanism attribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "linked orbital enlargement, tissue-volume loss, retractile process, mixed mechanism, or unresolved cause; supporting evidence and confidence", "why_it_matters": "Connects the positional state to explanations while preserving uncertainty." }, { "name": "Functional and personal burden", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "documented diplopia, motility limitation, eyelid-closure difficulty, visual change, and patient-reported appearance concern", "why_it_matters": "Prevents displacement magnitude alone from standing in for clinical significance." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a sunken-eye observation as suspected, confirmed, apparent, or unresolved enophthalmos.", "Compare serial globe-position observations when their measurement references are compatible.", "Identify missing evidence needed to distinguish positional change from globe-size or eyelid abnormalities.", "Link supported causal mechanisms to neighboring disease or injury models.", "Summarize symptoms and examination findings for clinician-led assessment of urgency and management.", "Track positional, functional, and patient-reported outcomes after observation or treatment." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Explain enophthalmos and its causes from medical sources.", "Advise urgent care after facial injury with eye changes." ], "must_not": [ "Diagnose the cause or advise delaying care.", "Infer a disease from photos of a person's face without consent.", "Mock changes in a person's appearance." ], "requires_human": [ "Any treatment or surgery on the orbit." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Changes to the face affect dignity and self-image.", "It can signal fractures or tumours that need prompt care." ], "affected_parties": [ "Patients", "Trauma victims", "People photographed" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The person whose body it is; clinicians treat it with consent.", "master_systems": [] }, "visual_identification": [ "One eye looks sunken compared with the other.", "A deeper upper eyelid fold on the affected side." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Double vision from orbital fractures.", "Missed underlying tumours." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "Enophthalmos is encountered in ophthalmology, orbital surgery and assessments of facial injury or orbital disease.", "The term describes a clinical finding used to document globe position and investigate changes in orbital volume, contents or supporting tissues." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "The International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, issued by the World Health Organization, classifies enophthalmos under H05.4." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q1343593: enophthalmos", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1343593", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Enophthalmos", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enophthalmos", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "recognition-and-boundaries", "name": "Recognition and boundaries", "description": "Establish whether the registered positional state is present.", "rationale": "A sunken-eye appearance is insufficient to identify what has moved or changed.", "layers": [ { "id": "posterior-position", "name": "Posterior position", "description": "Locate the globe relative to a defensible orbital reference.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-of-recession", "name": "Evidence of recession", "description": "Record the observation supporting true posterior displacement and the confidence assigned to it.", "questions": [ { "text": "What examination or imaging evidence establishes posterior displacement within the orbit?", "kind": "definition", "id": "evidence-of-recession-q01" }, { "text": "Which anatomical reference and comparison establish that the position is abnormal?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "evidence-of-recession-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "apparent-recession", "name": "Apparent recession", "description": "Separate the positional state from neighboring explanations of appearance.", "findings": [ { "id": "mimics-and-coexisting-malposition", "name": "Mimics and coexisting malposition", "description": "Document globe-size abnormalities, eyelid changes, comparison-eye abnormalities, and non-posterior displacement separately.", "questions": [ { "text": "Could reduced globe size, eyelid position, or contralateral proptosis explain the apparent recession?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "mimics-and-coexisting-malposition-q01" }, { "text": "Is any inferior or horizontal globe displacement present in addition to posterior recession?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "mimics-and-coexisting-malposition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "measurement-and-comparability", "name": "Measurement and comparability", "description": "Make globe-position measurements interpretable across examinations.", "rationale": "Apparent changes may reflect a different instrument, landmark, or comparator.", "layers": [ { "id": "measurement-reference", "name": "Measurement reference", "description": "Record how each position estimate was obtained.", "findings": [ { "id": "instrument-and-landmark-validity", "name": "Instrument and landmark validity", "description": "Hertel measurements depend on lateral orbital rim integrity; record compromised landmarks. [Measurement limitations](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK563300/)", "questions": [ { "text": "What were the readings for both eyes, instrument type, base setting where applicable, and observer?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "instrument-and-landmark-validity-q01" }, { "text": "Have trauma, surgery, or anatomical asymmetry altered the landmarks used by this method?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "instrument-and-landmark-validity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "interpreting-differences", "name": "Interpreting differences", "description": "Distinguish supported recession from reference error and measurement variation.", "findings": [ { "id": "comparator-and-threshold", "name": "Comparator and threshold", "description": "Require an explicit comparator and justification for any diagnostic or change threshold, especially in bilateral cases.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is interpretation based on the fellow eye, an earlier measurement, or a justified reference population?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "comparator-and-threshold-q01" }, { "text": "What supports the chosen threshold, and does the observed difference exceed uncertainty for this measurement method?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "comparator-and-threshold-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "orbital-mechanism-and-cause", "name": "Orbital mechanism and cause", "description": "Connect posterior displacement to supported anatomical mechanisms and causal conditions.", "rationale": "The same positional state can arise through different orbital changes.", "layers": [ { "id": "structural-mechanism", "name": "Structural mechanism", "description": "Describe the anatomical explanation without forcing a single cause.", "findings": [ { "id": "space-content-and-retraction", "name": "Space, content, and retraction", "description": "Assess orbital cavity enlargement, soft-tissue volume loss, and fibrotic retraction as possible mechanisms. [Mechanism overview](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK563300/)", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence supports increased orbital space, reduced orbital contents, a retractile process, or a combination?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "space-content-and-retraction-q01" }, { "text": "Which orbital walls, fat compartments, or other tissues are implicated by the available examination or imaging?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "space-content-and-retraction-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "causal-attribution", "name": "Causal attribution", "description": "Link mechanisms to events or diseases at an appropriate confidence level.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-causal-link", "name": "Supported causal link", "description": "Record evidence for a related injury, procedure, sinus disorder, or other condition without treating temporal association as proof.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which preceding event or diagnosed condition is proposed to explain this eye's recession, and what supports that link?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-causal-link-q01" }, { "text": "Which alternative causes remain unresolved, and what additional clinician-directed evaluation could distinguish them?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-causal-link-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "course-and-clinical-burden", "name": "Course and clinical burden", "description": "Represent change over time and its functional and personal consequences.", "rationale": "A position measurement does not establish progression, symptom causation, or the person's priorities.", "layers": [ { "id": "onset-and-evolution", "name": "Onset and evolution", "description": "Reconstruct when recession appeared and how it has changed.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-position-trajectory", "name": "Documented position trajectory", "description": "Keep reported onset, first documentation, and comparable serial measurements distinct.", "questions": [ { "text": "When was recession first noticed, and what earlier photographs or examinations document baseline appearance or position?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-position-trajectory-q01" }, { "text": "Do comparable observations support stability, progression, or improvement, and what limits that conclusion?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "documented-position-trajectory-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "functional-and-appearance-effects", "name": "Functional and appearance effects", "description": "Record consequences without automatically attributing every ocular symptom to recession.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributable-burden", "name": "Attributable burden", "description": "Separate observed impairment, reported distress, and the evidence connecting each to globe position.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are diplopia, motility restriction, eyelid-closure difficulty, or visual changes documented, and what is their proposed relationship to the orbital abnormality?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attributable-burden-q01" }, { "text": "Which appearance changes or activity limitations matter to the person, and how are those concerns recorded over time?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "attributable-burden-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "clinical-disposition-and-outcomes", "name": "Clinical disposition and outcomes", "description": "Support clinician-led next steps and evaluation of their results.", "rationale": "Management decisions require cause, associated findings, measurement reliability, and patient priorities.", "layers": [ { "id": "assessment-disposition", "name": "Assessment disposition", "description": "Make the rationale for further assessment or monitoring explicit.", "findings": [ { "id": "next-step-rationale", "name": "Next-step rationale", "description": "Record the responsible clinician's disposition and unresolved orbital or visual findings influencing it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are acute visual changes, trauma-related findings, or progressive unexplained recession present for clinician assessment of urgency?", "kind": "action", "id": "next-step-rationale-q01" }, { "text": "What supports observation, additional investigation, or specialist referral, and who owns the next step?", "kind": "action", "id": "next-step-rationale-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "response-and-residual-state", "name": "Response and residual state", "description": "Assess outcomes against the original positional and functional objectives.", "findings": [ { "id": "multidimensional-outcome", "name": "Multidimensional outcome", "description": "Track globe position, associated impairment, personal concerns, and adverse effects separately after management.", "questions": [ { "text": "What changed in measured recession and associated symptoms using comparable pre-management and follow-up observations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "multidimensional-outcome-q01" }, { "text": "What residual displacement, new symptoms, or unmet personal priorities require reassessment?", "kind": "action", "id": "multidimensional-outcome-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This account is recalled knowledge; no sources were consulted.", "Exophthalmometry interpretation depends on instrument, technique, baseline anatomy and whether the opposite orbit is normal.", "The listed kinds are descriptive clinical groupings rather than a single formal classification." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of enophthalmos this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Congenital enophthalmos", "Post-traumatic enophthalmos", "Non-traumatic acquired enophthalmos" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of enophthalmos this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "ICD-10", "value_or_pattern": "H05.4", "note": "World Health Organization category for enophthalmos; national clinical modifications may add detail." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of enophthalmos this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Clinical sign assessed after orbital fractures, particularly orbital floor and medial wall injuries.", "Finding that can prompt evaluation for silent sinus syndrome, orbital fat loss or orbital scarring.", "Outcome assessed when planning and reviewing orbital reconstruction." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of enophthalmos this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Difference in globe projection between eyes, assessed by exophthalmometry", "typical_range": "An asymmetry greater than approximately 2 mm is commonly considered clinically significant; this is an assessment threshold, not a normal range.", "unit": "mm" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of enophthalmos this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Acute swelling after trauma can initially conceal enophthalmos.", "Associated orbital injuries can produce double vision and restricted eye movement.", "Bilateral enophthalmos may be missed if assessment relies only on comparison between eyes.", "An apparently sunken eye can be misclassified as true posterior globe displacement.", "Treating the appearance alone can overlook an underlying sinus or orbital disorder." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of enophthalmos this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Proptosis", "difference": "Proptosis is anterior displacement of the globe; enophthalmos is posterior displacement." }, { "name": "Hypoglobus", "difference": "Hypoglobus is inferior displacement of the globe and may coexist with posterior displacement." }, { "name": "Pseudoenophthalmos", "difference": "The eye appears sunken without true posterior displacement, for example because of a small globe or contralateral proptosis." }, { "name": "Silent sinus syndrome", "difference": "This is a sinonasal disorder that can cause enophthalmos and hypoglobus; enophthalmos itself is a positional finding with multiple possible causes." }, { "name": "Microphthalmos", "difference": "Microphthalmos describes an abnormally small eyeball, whereas enophthalmos describes its position." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of enophthalmos this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which method-specific and population-appropriate reference ranges best support recognition when both eyes are affected or no reliable baseline exists?", "What minimum detectable change should be used for each clinical or imaging measurement method when orbital landmarks are altered?", "How should the model distinguish persistent enophthalmos from gaze-dependent globe retraction without conflating their mechanisms?", "Which evidence best separates the contributions of orbital enlargement, tissue loss, and fibrosis in mixed-mechanism cases?", "Which validated outcome measures and follow-up intervals best capture functional benefit and patient-valued appearance changes across different causes?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 17, "questions": 27 } }