Purpose To present a number of cases of smonasal disease wth secondary orbital involvement and to review these disorders m the light of previously published reports. Methods A retrospective study of patients with primary sinonasal tract disease and secondary orbital involvement who were admitted to the Kmg Abdul Ariz University Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from 1988 to 1993 Patrents wth dis...

PURPOSE To describe three cases of orbital tuberculosis, with their clinical characteristics and respective diagnostic procedures, showing the importance of histopathology for the correct diagnosis. PATIENTS AND METHODS Three patients diagnosed and treated for orbital tuberculosis, in the "Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo" during the years of 1999 an...

The term orbital tumor covers a wide range of benign and malignant diseases affecting specific component of the orbit or developing in contact with them. They are found incidentally or may be investigated as part of the assessment of a systemic disorder or because of orbital signs (exophthalmos, pain, etc.). Computed tomography, MRI and Color Doppler Ultrasound (CDU), play a varying role depend...

The term "orbital tumors" comprises a wide variety of lesions that often share the same cardinal clinical finding (exophthalmos) and clinical history. Age at presentation, associated ophthalmological findings, and radiological features, however, provide invaluable information as to the possible histological type of tumor. The present article serves as an introductory overview regarding the path...

Here, we present a case of right eyelid drooping in a 79-year-old man. Neurological examination revealed ptosis of the right eye without severe painful eyelid swelling and redness. An ocular motility examination of the right eye revealed upward limitation and downward overshoot. The results of routine blood examinations were within normal limits, and no autoantibodies were detected. Orbital mag...

Non-specific orbital inflamation (NSOI) syndrome is a non-granulomatous, non-infectious and non-neoplastic orbital disease with unknown etiology. Despite being rare in children, NSOI accounts for up to 6 17% of all pediatric orbital inflammatory diseases and several conditions such as cellulitis, rhabdomyosarcoma and leukemia are considered in the differential diagnosis (1). The most frequent s...

Follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) is the second most common type of thyroid cancer after papillary carcinoma. It usually grows slowly and is clinically indolent; but rarely, its aggressive forms with distant metastases can occur. We report here an uncommon case of bilateral orbital metastasis of FTC. A 70-year-old woman present...

purpose: to determine the prevalence of intraocular injuries in patients with blow-out fracture and also to evaluate the etiologic mechanism of orbital blow-out fractures methods: this study is a consecutive case series analysis of 116 patients with orbital blow-out fractures. the patients were visited by an ophthalmologist within 24 hours of trauma. results: ninety-one men and twenty-five wome...