Orbital neurilemmoma. Presenting as retrobulbar neuritis.
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Orbital neurilemmoma. Presenting as retrobulbar neuritis.
Neurilemmoma of the orbit is a localized, encapsulated, benign nerve sheath tumour which grows very slowly and possibly intermittently, and has no distinctive clinical features (Reese, I963). When large enough it causes exophthalmos and sometimes blurring of vision through pressure on the optic nerve (Reese, I963; Sharma and Kulshrestha, I961). The motility of the eyeball may also be impaired. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 1970
ISSN: 0007-1161
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.54.3.206