Localized neurofibroma of the orbit: a radiographic and histopathologic study.
OBJECTIVE
To demonstrate the clinical, radiographic, intraoperative and histopathologic presentation of a localized neurofibroma of the orbit.


METHODS
Clinicopathologic case report.


RESULTS
A 25-year-old man was examined for inferior displacement of the right globe. Physical examination and neuro-imaging identified a localized solid tissue mass of the superior orbit. Histopathologic evaluation after complete surgical resection proved the lesion to be a localized neurofibroma.


CONCLUSIONS
The patient's history, clinical presentation, and imaging studies were strongly characteristic for this infrequently encountered orbital lesion. Several imaging features, including multilobulation, multiplicity, ring-configured contrast enhancement, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) signal intensity heterogeneity, when present in combination, may be reasonably diagnostic of this tumor.
Lee
L R
LR
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA.
Gigantelli
J W
JW
Kincaid
M C
MC
D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009455:Neurofibroma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D009918:Orbital Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed