Muhammad Asif, Khurram Shafiq, Manzoor Ahmed, Nazir Ahmad, Iftikhar Ali Raja.
Orbital Masses incidence and clinical presentation.
Pak J Ophthalmol Jan ;14(4):149-52.

Twenty patients with orbital masses presented in the three- year period of the study. Clinical and ophthalmological examination of all these patients were done along with radiological and histopathological examination. Eleven patients were male and nine were female. The age ranged from 1.5 to 60 years with a maximum number of patients in the first and the second decades of life. Proptosis was present in all the cases (100%) and progressive deterioration of vision in 8(40%) patients. Five patients had complete loss of vision and three had decreased visual acuity. Funduscopy showed optic atrophy in five cases and three patients had papilloedema. Majority of the cases were with non-Hodgkin`s lymphoma (25%), the others being inflammatory pseudotumor 115%1, tuberculoma (10%), abscesses (10%), mestastatic adenocarcinoma (10%) and haemangloma (10%). Haematoma, osteoma, rhabdomyosarcoma and pleomorphic adenoma constituted 5% each.

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