Advanced Surgery in Malignant Exophthalmos

Malignant exophthalmos associated with multiple myeloma.

We report a patient with malignant exophthalmos associated with multiple myeloma which showed no evidence of direct orbital involvement of plasma cells. This exophthalmos had similarities with Graves' ophthalmopathy, but the patient had no detectable autoimmune thyroid diseases. Plasmapheresis was effective not only for the treatment of heart and renal failure due to the myeloma kidney but also...

Malignant Salivary Gland Tumours of the Nasal Sinuses and Exophthalmos.

TUMOURS of the ethmoid, maxillary, frontal, and sphenoid air sinuses usually manifest themselves by proptosis. They may take the form of osteoma, chondroma, osteoclastoma, fibroma, myxoma, angioma, psammoma, endothelioma, carcinoma, or sarcoma (Duke-Elder, 1952). The mucous membrane of these sinuses contains not only epithelial and fibro-adenoid layers but also a layer of mucous and serous glan...

A case of malignant solitary fibrous tumor presenting with exophthalmos.

A 71-year-old man was referred to our hospital for the treatment of left painless exophthalmos without any systemic symptom. His left eye was extruded, and eye movement was restricted. Orbital magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a circumscribed oval tumor measuring 4 cm in diameter at the nasal side of the left orbit (Fig. 1). The left eyeball was deformed by the tumor. Extensive work-up ...

The place of ultraradical surgery in advanced malignant disease in the pelvis.

Intermittent exophthalmos.

The syndrome of intermittent exophthalmos classically consists of enophthalmos with the head in the upright position, and exophthalmos which develops rapidly in one eye (usually the left) when venous stasis is induced by bending or lowering the head, turning the head forcibly, hyperextension of the neck, coughing, forced expiration with or without compression of the nostrils, or pressure on the...