Plasmacytoma manifesting as recurrent cellulitis and hematic cyst of the orbit.
OBJECTIVE
To describe a patient with recurrent periorbital cellulitis and orbital blood cyst as the initial manifestation of primary extramedullary plasmacytoma.


METHODS
The chart, imaging studies, and histopathologic examination results and literature on the subject were reviewed.


RESULTS
Orbital surgery disclosed a hematic cyst along with a solitary plasma cell tumor.


CONCLUSIONS
Periorbital cellulitis and pain can be a manifestation of a plasma cell tumor. Bleeding may occur within a necrotic orbital tumor.
Rappaport
K
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Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA.
Liesegang
T J
TJ
Menke
D H
DH
Czervionke
L F
LF
D000368:Aged; D001769:Blood; D001845:Bone Cysts / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002481:Cellulitis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009915:Orbit / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D009916:Orbital Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009918:Orbital Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010954:Plasmacytoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012008:Recurrence; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed