Cavernous hemangioma with rapidly developing proptosis.
OBJECTIVE
To report an unusual case of cavernous hemangioma with rapidly developing proptosis.


METHODS
Case report. The clinical features, imaging findings and orbital surgery were presented.


RESULTS
A 54-year-old man presented with rapidly developing proptosis and a mass in the lower eyelid of his left eye for 8 h. The left eye had 5 mm of proptosis. Color Doppler ultrasonography and computed tomography disclosed a well-defined soft tissue mass in the left anterior orbit, which extended along the floor of the orbit and sized 1.7 x 2.2 cm without bone destruction. An anterior orbitotomy was performed. At surgery a red-purple, well-defined and cone-shaped mass and a hematoma, which was found on the lateral part of the mass, were removed. The histopathological evaluation of the mass revealed cavernous hemangioma.


CONCLUSIONS
Patient with a rapidly developing proptosis might have the possibility of orbital cavernous hemangioma.
Yan
Jianhua
J
Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, The Section of Ocular Oncology & Orbital Disease, Sun Yat-sen University, 54 Xieli Nan Road, Guangzhou 510060, PR China. Yan2011@tom.com
Wang
Xianggui
X
D005094:Exophthalmos / Q000209:etiology*; D006392:Hemangioma, Cavernous / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009918:Orbital Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D018615:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color