title: [Orbital mesenchymal tumors--orbital fibrous histiocytoma. Their clinical and histopathological aspects].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Clinica de Oftalmologie, Târgu-Mureş.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Horvath
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Stolnicu
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sireteanu
mesh_terms: 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