title: Orbital cavernous hemangioma: role of imaging.
abstract: CT and MR imaging are particularly important in the diagnostic investigation of patients with vascular disorders of the orbit. The improved image quality of CT and MR imaging, along with dynamic CT angiography, MR angiography, MR venography, and multiphase dynamic contrast CT/MR imaging, has proven useful to delineate as well as differentiate various orbital vascular lesions. This article presents the current classification of orbital vascular disorders and describes the CT/MR imaging characteristics of orbital cavernous hemangiomas and simulating lesions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Illinois Hospital at Chicago, University of Illinois College of Medicine, 1801 West Taylor Street, MC 711, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
authors.forename: Sameer A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Ansari
authors.forename: Mahmood F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Mafee
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006392:Hemangioma, Cavernous / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D009918:Orbital Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy