title: Cavernous hemangioma with rapidly developing proptosis.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: 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
authors.forename: Jianhua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: Xianggui
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: 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