[Amaurosis fugax as the early manifestation of orbital schwannoma].
OBJECTIVE
We report a case of a 51-year-old woman who clinically presented amaurosis fugax in her left eye of four months' duration.


CONCLUSIONS
Computed tomography showed a well defined intraconal mass suggestive of cavernous hemangioma. A left lateral orbitotomy was performed. A red and encapsulated mass was removed in its entirety without violation of its capsule. Microscopically, it was composed of areas of spindle-shaped cells disposed in form of palisade (Antoni type A) mixed with cystic areas where the cells were scattered in a loose myxoid matrix (Antoni type B). Some nuclei were large, hyperchromatic, pleomorphic and multilobulated. The diagnosis was made on the basis of the histopathologic findings.
Peris Martínez C
Departamento de Oftalmología y Anatomía Patológica, Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia, España.
España Grégori E
Risueño Reguillo P
Aviñó Martínez JA
Díaz-Llopis
M
M
Vera-Sempere
F J
FJ
Menezo
J L
JL
D020757:Amaurosis Fugax / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D009918:Orbital Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis