INTRODUCTION Fibrous dysplasia is a benign tumour of the bones and is a disease of unknown aetiology. This report discusses a case of proptosis and visual deterioration with associated bony mass involving the right orbit. CASE PRESENTATION A 32-year-old Nigerian man of Yoruba ethnic origin presented to the eye clinic of our hospital with right-eye proptosis and visual deterioration of 7-year ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the surgical outcome of deep lateral orbital decompression with or without rim removal. DESIGN Retrospective case series. METHODS Thirty-two patients (47 orbits) with Graves' orbitopathy who underwent simple deep lateral decompression or balanced lateral plus medial decompression. Of the 14 patients (24 orbits) who underwent simple deep lateral decompression, 8 (13 orbit...

PURPOSE To report a case of orbital oculomotor nerve schwannoma extending to the cavernous sinus through the superior orbital fissure presenting with proptosis, but without any neurological sign. CASE REPORT A 32-year-old man presented with axial proptosis of his left eye. Visual acuity and other ocular examinations were normal. Orbital magnetic resonance imaging revealed a well-defined fusif...

REESE (1951) and other authors hold that, except when an orbital tumour is palpable, no surgery should be attempted unless a deep orbital tumour affects the function of the eye or the optic nerve. Reese recalled no case in which the orbit had been explored with benefit, merely because of an unexplained unilateral proptosis. Among my series of 130 cases of unilateral proptosis, mostly caused by ...

Unilateral proptosis and ptosis in euthyroid Graves’s disease is very rare with 5 -10% cases reported. We present a clinically Euthyroid male with features of thyroid ophthalmopathy who presented with unilateral proptosis and ptosis, restriction of extra ocular movements and compressive optic neuropathy. Thyroid function tests were normal and anti-thyroid peroxidase antibody was positive. CT sc...

A case is reported of a primary rhabdomyosarcoma occurring in the right subfrontal region of a 16 year old girl. The patient suffered from dull frontal headache and proptosis for three months before hospitalization. The circumscribed and demarcated neoplasm involved the dura mater, and invaded the frontal sinus and roof of the orbit on the same side. The pathogenesis of the tumour is thought to...

MODE OF DEVELOPMENT.-This disease is also termed echinococcosis, or hydatid cyst formation; it results from the ingestion of food contaminated with the eggs of the tape-worm Echinococcus granulosus. The embryo is released in the intestines, attaches itself to the mucosa, and makes its way into the portal circulation, by which it is carried to a capillary barrier, where it settles down, and, if ...