title: [Amaurosis fugax as the early manifestation of orbital schwannoma].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Oftalmología y Anatomía Patológica, Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia, España.
authors.lastname: Peris Martínez C
authors.lastname: España Grégori E
authors.lastname: Risueño Reguillo P
authors.lastname: Aviñó Martínez JA
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Díaz-Llopis
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Vera-Sempere
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Menezo
mesh_terms: 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