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Solitary orbital malignant neurilemmoma.
A SERIES of 500 cases of proptosis included two due to orbital malignant neurilemmoma, which according to Duke-Elder (1952) and Hogan and Zimmerman (1962) is a very rare condition. Case Reports Case 1, a 50-year-old woman (Fig. 1), had a left forward painless proptosis of 7-months' duration. Examination.-The right eye was normal and the visual acuity 6/9. The left eye showed proptosis 23 mm. (r...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 1968
ISSN: 0007-1161
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.52.2.188