title: Localized neurofibroma of the orbit: a radiographic and histopathologic study.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA.
authors.forename: L R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Gigantelli
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Kincaid
mesh_terms: 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