BACKGROUND Proptosis is characterized by a protrusion of the eyeball due to an increase of the orbital tissue volume. To recover a normal eyeball positioning, the most frequent surgical technique consists in the osteotomy of orbital walls combined with a loading on the eyeball to initiate tissue decompression. The first biomechanical models dealing with proptosis reduction, validated in one pat...

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...

introduction: burkitt lymphoma (bl) is rare, but an aggressive malignancy. central nervous system burkitt lymphoma (cnsbl) is very rare. cns burkitt’s lymphoma is treated with high-dose chemotherapy and radiation. radiotherapy in children younger than three years old may cause major cns damage. case report: a three-year-old boy presented with painful proptosis of the left eye. he underwent aden...