OBJECTIVE We present a 38-year-old man with a tension pneumo-orbit following medial orbital wall fracture, managed with endoscopic decompression. METHOD A case report and a review of the world literature concerning the aetiology, clinical features and management of medial orbital wall fractures are presented. RESULTS Our patient presented with a post-traumatic tension pneumo-orbit exacerbat...

BACKGROUND Orbital inflammatory pseudotumor is a rare inflammatory condition of unknown cause that may extend intracranially, usually as a dural-based infiltrate. Here we report the first case of orbital pseudotumor presenting with intra-axial Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) changes. CASE PRESENTATION A 57-year-old white female, with a 3-month history of headache and right palpebral edema, p...

Idiopathic orbital inflammation (IOI) is a poorly understood disease entity in which an orbital inflammatory process is found with, by definition, no identifiable local or systemic cause. Graves ophthalmopathy (GO) is often mentioned as a disease to exclude in the diagnosis of IOI. In the Orbital Clinic of the University Medical Center Utrecht, we have encountered 4 patients in whom diagnoses o...

Tumor lesion of the orbit is found in clinic various oncohematological diseases children. Untimely referral such patients to an oncologist delays timing necessary treatment, thereby worsening prognosis disease. The literature review presents features clinical manifestations orbital pathology children at onset acute myeloid leukemia, sarcoma, lymphoma, Langerhans cell and non-Langerhans histiocy...

Orbital injury and complications are commonly encountered in endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) despite advances in techniques and instrumentation. For the recent 10 years, we summarized the experience of the rhinology unit of our department regarding orbital injury and complications of ESS for sinonasal inflammatory disorders. One thousand seventy-three patients (1869 sides) from January 1, 2003 t...

MRI is performed using a head or preferably a surface coil with the patient in supine position . The common pulse sequences used for orbit are Spin Echo T1 and T2, Fat suppression and Short Tau Inversion recovery. These help in tissue characterization. Post contrast T1 sequences help in assessing the vascularity of lesions, the enhancement patterns of some of which may help in reaching a defini...

A NUMBER of bone diseases may affect the orbital bones decreasing the orbital volume and narrowing the optic canal, giving rise to unilateral exophthalmos and usually optic atrophy, simulating clinically an orbital tumour. Among such diseases are osteitis deformans (Paget, 1876); leontiasis ossea (Virchow, 1896); osteopetrosis (Albers-Schonberg, 1904), and the generalized and localized osteitis...

Sarcomatoid carcinoma is a rare, aggressive tumor, with a special predilection for the upper bronchodigestive tract and oral cavity (1-3), but it may occur in other locations such as the uterus and breast. This tumor has a mixture of carcinoma and sarcoma containing differentiated mesenchymal elements (1-3). Orbital apex syndrome is a rare complex characterized by proptosis and paralysis of ext...