Solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) of the orbit is a very rare lesion that may be misdiagnosed as fibrous histiocytoma, hemangiopericytoma, or other orbital tumors. We present a 62-year-old man who presented with painless proptosis, 20 years following left eye enucleation for a presumed neurofibroma. On T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a hypointense tumor almost filled his entire left or...

Purpose: We report an unusual case of trabecular carcinoid of the ovary with orbital involvement. Methods: We encountered a 49-year-old woman with a complaint of bilateral proptosis. Ocular examination revealed severe bilateral proptosis and signs of corneal exposure. Orbital CT scan showed massive enlargement of extraocular muscles and optic nerve compression. The patient medical history showe...

Intraorbital schwannoma is a rare tumor which accounts for about 1-2% of all neoplasms of the orbit. Orbital schwannomas most commonly arise from the sensory branches of the trigeminal nerve. On the other hand, intraorbital abducens nerve schwannomas are extremely rare, with a search of the English literature identifying only four cases of intraorbital abducens nerve schwannoma. This is the 5th...

The behavior of tumor cells in the ocular and orbital tissues was studied by injecting cell suspensions from Walker carcinosarcoma 256 into the right common carotid artery of Wistar rats. The animals were sacrificed at different postoperative periods up to 12 days, and the intraand extraocular tissues were examined microscopically. Tumors developed, in the ocular and orbital tissues in about on...

INTRODUCTION Inflammations and tumors of the orbit and para-orbital regions may present as proptosis. Management depends on clinical, radiological, histo-pathological and biochemical evaluation. OBJECTIVE To analyze the clinical and histopathological profile of the lesions causing proptosis and to report the outcome of their surgical management. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a retrospective stud...

AIM Lateral orbitotomy is a well-known approach for lesions of the lateral orbital cone. It is still appropriate for laterally situated tumors although contemporary cranial base approaches were defined and developed within the last decades. MATERIAL AND METHODS Here we report 10 orbital lesions operated with lateral orbitotomy, nine of which were extraconal. Cholesterol granuloma, arachnoid c...

PURPOSE To evaluate the outcome of sodium morrhuate 5% injections in patients with low flow vascular lesions, which consist of orbital lymphangiomas, and in one patient with intraosseous cavernous hemangioma. DESIGN Prospective, interventional consecutive case series. METHODS Intralesional sodium morrhuate 5% was injected under direct visualization or under radiographic guidance to six pati...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequencies of various orbital malignancies amongst orbital lesions in patients presenting in a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan. METHODS A retrospective analysis of 666 orbital cases with an established histopathological diagnosis of malignant tumors treated in Mayo Hospital Lahore from 1996 to 2015 (20 years). RESULTS About 66% of the malignant tumors were pri...

RATIONALE Though giant malignant tumors arising in the eyelid are rare, they often require extensive surgery for removal along with orbital exenteration. Because of this, repairing orbital defects is an important factor in the surgical strategy. PATIENT CONCERNS Case 1 was a 78-year-old nomad man who presented in the Department of Ophthalmology with a giant tumor in his right eyelid, which ha...