Intraorbital Tumors

An Aetio-Epidemiological Inquiry of Proptosis

“…The diverse incidence rate of proptosis observed between various studies could be due to the strata occupied by the place of study in healthcare hierarchy, method of study, age group studied and study duration. On analysis of these criteria's, it is noted that the studies carried out in tertiary healthcare setup shows neoplasm as the commonest aetiology irrespective of the age group studied [6,11,12,[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. There are also few reports that claims endocrine pathology and inflammation as the commonest aetiology of proptosis in adults [4,9], paediatric age group [10] respectively.…”

Rare Tumors of the Orbit During Childhood

“…We find it possible that the neoplasia, according to one of its frequent behaviors [Forrest, 1949], has firstly progressed toward a rapid hyperplasia and then undergone a fibrous degeneration; the examination, however, has caught the neoformation in a stage where clear evidence of hyperplastic phenomena is still persistent; this fact, together with the bulky mass of the neoplasia may explain the comparatively good captation effect during the scintigraphic examination. As a whole, this neoplasia ought to be accounted as mainly benign.…”

“…Out of a case study of 184 primitive orbital tumors, Forrest [1949] found 24 hemangiomas of which 3 were of the hemangioendothelioma-type; the same writer hints at the possibility of fibrous degeneration of the said tumor.…”

Orbital Plasma Cell Tumours

“…Out of 1,775 orbital tumours reported by Forrest [1949], Of fret [1951] and Reese [ 1963] only 4 solitary orbital plasmacytomas were found and one of these was later inter preted as a plasma cell pseudotumour by Rodman and Font [1972],…”