Solitary fibrous tumor of the orbit: CT and pathologic correlation

Festa, Steven; Lee, H.-J.; Langer, Paul D.; Klein, Kenneth M.

doi:10.1007/s002340050705

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“…15,16 The review of the literature reveals a recent trend of rather rapid accumulation of the number of orbital SFTs, and so far more than 50 cases of orbital SFT have been reported in the English-language literature. [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] Bernardini et al 15 questioned the rarity of orbital SFT. According to these authors, thanks to the widespread use of immunohistochemical studies, the number of orbital SFTs has rapidly been increasing after 1994 when the first orbital SFT was reported.…”

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“…5,7,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] Usually, the tumor is seen as a well-defined soft tissue mass with heterogeneously or homogeneously strong enhancement on CT and MR images. Occasional internal calcifications and necrosis have also been reported.…”

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“…[2][3][4][5][6][7] Since the first report of 2 cases of orbital SFT in 1994, 8 the orbit has become one of the common sites of the head and neck involved by the tumor, and more than 50 cases of orbital SFT have been reported mostly in the ophthalmologic and pathologic literature. [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] To our knowledge, however, systematic analysis of the imaging features of orbital SFT has seldom been reported in the radiologic literature. The purpose of this study was to describe the characteristic CT and MR imaging findings of 6 cases of patients with SFT of the orbit proved on pathologic examination.…”

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Solitary Fibrous Tumor of the Orbit: CT and MR Imaging Findings

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Kim³

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AJNR Am J Neuroradiol

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Solitary Fibrous Tumor of the Orbit: CT and MR Imaging Findings

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“…To our knowledge, there are up to 50 SFTs of the orbit described [1,4,5,6,8,13,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,26,27,28,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46]. The aim of the present study is to present two cases and to review the current literature.…”

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Solitary fibrous tumor of the orbit?two cases and a review of the literature

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Schuknecht

et al. 2004

Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol

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Solitary fibrous tumors of the orbit (SFT) are mesenchymal lesions that can develop either as malignant or benign neoplasias. We describe the histological features leading to the diagnosis in two females and review the current literature. Diagnosis of SFT only can be performed by histological examination, since clinical signs and radiological features are not specific enough. Even a malignant or benign course cannot be predicted, since clinical and radiological features do not correlate with histological signs of malignancy and vice versa. Radical resection is the treatment of choice, since no other treatment option has been proven to be efficient. Abstract Solitary fibrous tumors of the orbit (SFT) are mesenchymal lesions that can develop either as malignant or benign neoplasias. We describe the histological features leading to the diagnosis in two females and review the current literature. Diagnosis of SFT only can be performed by histological examination, since clinical signs and radiological features are not specific enough. Even a malignant or benign course cannot be predicted, since clinical and radiological features do not correlate with histological signs of malignancy and vice versa. Radical resection is the treatment of choice, since no other treatment option has been proven to be efficient.

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“…Orbital SFT has possibly been underdiagnosed in the past, because of its rarity in extrapleural organs and histological similarity to other spindle cell tumors. Currently, with the development of immunohistochemical method, the number of reported cases have been increasing 9) . One of the most common symptoms is unilateral painless proptosis, which can be accompanied by visual disturbance, palpable orbital mass, ocular mobility disturbance, hyperglobus or blepharoptosis from the secondary mass effect in the orbit 24) .…”

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Orbital Solitary Fibrous Tumor : A Case Report and Diagnostic Clues

Park

Kim

et al. 2009

J Korean Neurosurg Soc

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J Korean Neurosurg Soc 46 : [77][78][79][80] 2009 Orbital solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) is a rare tumor originating from the mesenchyme. We describe the clinical presentations, radiological and operative findings, and pathological features of a patient with orbital SFT. The patient was a 46-year-old female who presented with progressive proptosis advanced for 20 months. On ophthalmological examination, no visual impairment was detected, but left eye was found to be obviously protruded on exophthalmometry. Orbital magnetic resonance imaging showed a 2.5 × 2 × 2 cm, intensely enhanced mass in the left orbit, which compressed the eyeball forward and the optic nerve downward. The patient underwent frontal craniotomy with superior orbitotomy and gross total resection was performed for the tumor. The histopathological diagnosis including immunohistochemistry was a SFT. After the surgery, proptosis was markedly relieved without visual impairment. Although orbital SFT is extremely rare, it should be considered in the differential diagnosis of orbital tumors. Clinical presentations such as painless proptosis and CD34 immunoreactivity play a significant role in differentiating orbital SFT from other spindle-cell neoplasms of the orbit.

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Solitary fibrous tumor of the orbit: CT and pathologic correlation

Abstract: We report the CT findings of a solitary fibrous tumor of the orbit. The radiologic features included relatively homogeneous contrast enhancement and smooth remodelling of the bones of the orbit, findings consistent with the benign nature of this relatively rare tumor.

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Solitary Fibrous Tumor of the Orbit: CT and MR Imaging Findings

Solitary Fibrous Tumor of the Orbit: CT and MR Imaging Findings

Solitary fibrous tumor of the orbit?two cases and a review of the literature

Orbital Solitary Fibrous Tumor : A Case Report and Diagnostic Clues

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