title: Plasmacytoma manifesting as recurrent cellulitis and hematic cyst of the orbit.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rappaport
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Liesegang
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Menke
authors.forename: L F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Czervionke
mesh_terms: 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