Proptosis in leukaemia.

Proptosis as a manifestation of acute myeloid leukaemia

Orbital or subconjunctival infiltration occurs frequently in acute and chronic lymphatic leukaemia, but only rarely in myelogenous leukaemia (Chatterjee and Sen, I 960). Chloroma, an atypical form of myeloblastic leukaemia, often manifests itself as a localized mass in the orbital periosteum, and the proptosis produced in such cases may be the first sign of the disease (Goodman and Iverson, I94...

Proptosis as a manifestation of acute myeloid leukaemia--a case report.

Orbital or subconjunctival infiltration occurs frequently in acute and chronic lymphatic leukaemia, but only rarely in myelogenous leukaemia (Chatterjee and Sen, I 960). Chloroma, an atypical form of myeloblastic leukaemia, often manifests itself as a localized mass in the orbital periosteum, and the proptosis produced in such cases may be the first sign of the disease (Goodman and Iverson, I94...

Unilateral proptosis.

Twenty-seven children with unilateral proptosis were investigated over a period of 8 1/2 years. Seventeen (63%) of them had local or disseminated malignancy, a higher proportion than in earlier reports. The frequency of inflammatory lesions, particularly ethmoiditis progressing to proptosis, appeared to have decreased, probably because of the liberal use of antibiotics for upper respiratory tra...

Unilateral proptosis in the newborn.

Peeping Painless Proptosis.

DR. XIAO CHI ZHANG: A 92-year-old woman with dementia was brought to the emergency department (ED) from a nursing home for headache and “left eye bulge” after falling backward, striking her head on the ground. While the review of systems was limited due to the patient’s baseline dementia, she only reported occipital headache, left knee pain and denied any eye pain, changes in her vision and sta...