[Orbital mesenchymal tumors--orbital fibrous histiocytoma. Their clinical and histopathological aspects].
Histiocytoma is a tumor with mesenchymal etiology, whose primary orbital form is very rare. (1) Although it is a benign tumor, there have been written--in a few cases--it's metastatic forms too. This article describes the case of a female patient with this tumor which had been extirpated successfully and without any recurrences till now. The disease had been appeared with a chronic sphenoidal and maxillary sinusitis. At the same time there are described the latest concepts about these tumors' etiology, classification and their treatment.
Horvath
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Clinica de Oftalmologie, Târgu-Mureş.
Stolnicu
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Sireteanu
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D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D018219:Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008637:Mesenchymoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009918:Orbital Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery