Multiple choroidal osteomas developing in association with recurrent orbital inflammatory pseudotumor.
Multiple choroidal osteomas developed in a 10-year-old black girl during recurrent episodes of bilateral orbital inflammatory pseudotumor, mild endophthalmitis, and a transient period of mild secondary hyperparathyroidism. The preponderance of these tumors in girls and women suggests that sex hormones may play a role in their pathogenesis; in our case, inflammation also seems to have been an important factor.
D002648:Child; D002830:Choroid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D009877:Endophthalmitis / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006962:Hyperparathyroidism, Secondary / Q000209:etiology; D007249:Inflammation; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D009916:Orbital Diseases / Q000150:complications; D010016:Osteoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D012008:Recurrence