REPORTS on intra-orbital tumours and causes of exophthalmos do not mention the disease entity ofeosinophilic granuloma first described by Lichtenstein and Jaffe (1940). Pfeiffer (1943), in reviewing 200 successive cases of exophthalmos, enumerated 31 different lesions, among which eosinophilic granuloma of the orbit was not listed. Forest (1949) reported on 222 cases of intra-orbital tumours co...

A 15-year-old female patient with progressive pulsatile exophthalmos caused by intraorbital encephalocele was evaluated with computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in our clinic. She had no history of trauma or reconstructive surgery. When she was a little girl, she had undergone surgery for congenital glaucoma on the right eye. On the three-dimensional image of CT, a hyp...

ANEURYSMS of the ophthalmic artery are very rare (Lange-Cosack, 1966). The subject has recently been reviewed by Tonnis and Walter (1966). Mortada (1961) reported a fusiform aneurysm of the ophthalmic artery as the cause of exophthalmos which may be added to their list. At the Neurosurgical Clinic, Helsinki, this rare lesion was diagnosed only twice among 1,343 patients with 1,601 intracranial ...

This is a report of a 20-year-old Nigerian man with a 15-year history of exophthalmos and nasal blockage caused by rhinoscleromatous. The diagnosis was made by histopathological examination of a biopsy specimen taken from the nasal passages. Despite protracted antibiotic therapy the patient experienced recurrent exophthalmos. Computerised axial tomography and sinus films showed the lesion to ha...