title: [Non-traumatic orbital diseases in Lausanne from 1965 to 1996].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Describe our series of patients with non-traumatic orbital diseases.
  
  
  METHODS
  A series of patients with non-traumatic orbital diseases seen in Lausanne from 1965 to 1996.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Inflammatory conditions and infections were the most frequently observed diseases. Pseudotumors were the most representative. Orbital involvement in systemic diseases (for example Graves' disease), vascular tumors and malformations, as well as orbital involvement in rhinological diseases were also often observed. Orbital cysts, particularly dermoid and epidermoid cysts, and orbital diseases of nervous origin were exceptional. Finally, diseases of the lacrimal gland, metastases, secondary tumors from adjacent structures and diseases of mesenchymal origin were more rare.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study also reports the proportion of male and female patients and the percentage of proptosis.
authors.affiliation: Service Universitaire d'Ophtalmologie de Lausanne, Hôpital Ophtalmique Jules Gonin, Suisse.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ducrey
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Bernasconi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009916:Orbital Diseases / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology*; D017678:Sex Distribution; D013557:Switzerland / Q000453:epidemiology; D014504:Urban Health