title: [Primary orbital tumors treated surgically in ENT department of Silesian Medical Academy in Katowice].
abstract: Primary tumours of orbital cavity are a difficult diagnostic and therapeutic problem from a borderline of ophthalmology, laryngology and neurosurgery. Particular anatomical relations of orbital cavity surrounded by paranasal sinuses, cranial cavity cause that it has become an interdisciplinary region and the best method of therapy is multispecialistic surgical treatment ("team approach"). In this article the classification and general symptomatology of orbital cavity primary tumours were presented. 37 patients suffering from primary orbital tumours were treated surgically in the ENT Department of Silesian Medical Academy in Katowice. The patients were aged from 23 (woman with neurosarcoma) to 73 (man with melanoma). All patients were treated surgically: 15 of them by orbital exenteration, 10 by lateral orbitotomy m. Kronlein-Reese-Berk, and 12 by canthotomy. Special attention was paid to possible postoperative complications.
authors.affiliation: I Katedra i Klinika Laryngologii Slaskiej AM w Katowicach.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gierek
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Markowski
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Majzel
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zbrowska-Bielska
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002391:Catchment Area, Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009918:Orbital Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D010036:Otolaryngology; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011044:Poland; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed