orbital lynphangioma is a low-flow or no-flow vascular malformation. it is a congenital and isolated hemodynamic lesion in which the clinical presentation and onset are related to orbital, peri-orbital or intracranial involvement. in addition, history of previous trauma and upper respiratory tract infection are important predictor factors. high resolution mri, doppler ultrasound and ct-scan are...

OBJECTIVE To determine the safety and efficacy of the endoscopic management of isolated orbital floor fractures. METHODS A systematic review was performed using electronic databases. Studies investigating the reconstruction of isolated orbital floor fractures using an endoscopic approach were considered for inclusion. Two investigators independently reviewed all results. Study quality was ass...

The first case of extracutaneous melanoma was described in Germany (1856) and up until 2001 approximately 1000 cases had been published. These are rare lesions, representing about 0.09% of the extracutaneous malignant neoplasias1. In the orbit, it is frequently secondary to invasions by conjunctiva, choroid melanomas or from adjacent regions, or blood-born metastases. The primary orbital melano...

Capillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common neoplasm of thyroid. It usually grows slowly and is clinically indolent; although rare, its aggressive forms with local invasion or distant metastases can occur. Metastatic thyroid carcinoma rarely involves the orbit. We reported an uncommon case of orbital metastasis of PTC. A 66-years-old woman presented proptosis of the right eye. The biop...

BACKGROUND Mucoepidermoid carcinoma of salivary glands usually metastasizes to the lungs, liver, bone, brain, and skin. We report a rare case of distant metastasis of high-grade mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the parotid to the ipsilateral bulbar conjunctiva of the eye. CASE PRESENTATION Sixty-year-old male of Kashmiri origin presented to our tertiary care referral cancer institute with exophyti...

A47-year-old male patient was referred to our gastroenterology department, to investigate multiple and large conglomerate mediastinal adenopathies. He reported a 6-month history of anorexia, weight loss, hoarseness, decrease in visual acuity, and several pigmented skin nodules scattered over the whole body with an average size of 2 cm. More recently, he presented with diffuse abdominal pain, na...

The purpose of this study was to present the imaging features of primary and secondary malignant lacrimal sac and nasolacrimal duct tumors and their pattern of tumor spread in 18 patients. The most common tumor histology in our series was squamous cell carcinoma. In 15/18 patients, tumor involved both the lacrimal sac and duct at the time of diagnosis. In 11/16 patients on CT, the nasolacrimal ...

Metastatic tumor is one of several etiologies of space-occupying masses in the orbit that accounts for 1-13% of all orbital masses. In the adult patient population, breast cancer is the most common tumor to metastasize to the orbit, followed by metastasis from the lung, prostate, and gastrointestinal tract. Carcinoid tumors are rare neuroendocrine neoplasms derived from enterochromaffin cells, ...

PURPOSE Orbital tumor recurrence is a rare but serious complication in children with retinoblastoma, leading to a high risk of metastasis and death. Therefore, we assume that these recurrences have to be detected and treated as early as possible. Preliminary studies used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to evaluate postsurgical findings in the orbit. In this study, we assessed the diagnostic ac...

OBJECTIVE To report four cases of orbital metastases and review the literature related to this condition. METHODS We reviewed the clinical records of the four patients and the appropriate world literature. RESULTS Two women 51 and 82 years old presented with orbital metastases from a primary breast tumour and a third woman (45 years old) had orbital metastases from a primary lung tumour. On...