title: Intraocular invasion by malignant orbital fibrous histiocytoma: a case report.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To present a case of intraocular invasion by an orbital malignant fibrous histiocytoma.
  
  
  METHODS
  Case report.
  
  
  METHODS
  An 84-year-old man was exenterated due to a malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the right orbit. On image investigation and histologic sections, the tumor entirely filled the right eye and orbit. The patient died of intracranial spread of the lesion.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Fibrous histiocytoma of the orbit can invade the eye.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.
authors.forename: E F
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Marback
authors.lastname: Marback PMF
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Sento Se
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Marback
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D018219:Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009918:Orbital Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*