Orbital space-occupying lesions in Indian children.
To present a review of all patients younger than 16 years who presented to us with orbital space-occupying lesions.



Retrospective case study.



We analyzed the records of 119 children younger than 16 years of age who had presented to us with proptosis during the 10-year study period. Myogenic tumors were the most common lesion seen (24%), followed by metastatic and secondary orbital tumors (17%), vasculogenic lesions (15%), cystic lesions (10%), inflammatory lesions simulating tumors (7.5%), optic nerve and meningeal tumors (7.5%), peripheral nerve tumors (5%), lacrimal fossa lesions (4%), lymphoid tumors and leukemias (2.5%), primitive neuroectodermal tumors (3%), and others (2.5%).



We analyzed the profile of orbital lesions that underwent surgical procedures and were proven histopathologically. We found 63 malignancies among the 119 cases, for a malignancy rate of 53%. Orbital rhabdomyosarcoma and retinoblastoma with orbital spread were the most common causes of proptosis among the children.
Bajaj
Mandeep S
MS
Oculoplastic and Pediatric Ophthalmology Services, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Pushker
Neelam
N
Chaturvedi
Amrita
A
Betharia
Subhash M
SM
Kashyap
Seema
S
Balasubramanya
Ramamurthy
R
Sen
Seema
S
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005094:Exophthalmos / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D009918:Orbital Neoplasms / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies