Proptosis following head injury in children with reticulosis.

THE TWO patients described below entered the Neurosurgical Service of the Children's Hospital with bilateral proptosis occurring after a minor head injury. Both of the patients were in fact suffering from reticulosis but the condition had been previously unsuspected. In the first patient evidence of generalized reticulosis was not apparent for some months after the head injury had precipitated his proptosis. In the second case, brought to hospital because of proptosis developing after a minor head injury, good evidence of the presence of generalized reticulosis was manifest at the time of admission. Bilateral proptosis as a consequent of head injury is very rare, and ocular manifestations of reticulosis