title: Primary orbital tumors: a review of 122 cases during a 23-year period: a histo-clinical study in material from the ENT Department of the Medical University of Silesia.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The aim of this study was to investigate the distribution of different types of primary orbital tumors, histopathological diagnosis, and postoperative complications.
  
  
  METHODS
  We analyzed 122 patients (68 women and 54 men) with orbital tumors, hospitalized in the ENT Department of the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice during 1990-2013. The patients were characterized in terms of anatomic, topographical, histopathological, and clinical parameters. The role of diagnostic imagining such as CT, NMR, and fine-needle aspiration (FNB) in preoperative diagnostics is discussed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  of FNB, cytological, and histopathological examination of the postoperative specimens were compared. Results There were 56 (46%) patients with malignant tumors, 42 (34%) with benign tumors, 19 (16%) with inflammatory tumors, and 5 patients (4%) had other tumors. In cases of malignant tumors, local recurrence up to 5 years was found in 36 (64.3%) cases. In the other 20 (35.7%) cases of malignant tumors, the patients remained under close follow-up in the outpatient clinic, without signs of local recurrence (follow-up 1-17 years). According to histopathological examination, malignant tumors were detected in 45.9% of patients and non-malignant tumor in 34.4% of patients. In 19.7% of patients, inflammatory and other types of tumors were diagnosed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We characterized the occurrence and pathological profiles of orbital tumors. The tumor location, histopathological diagnosis, and postoperative complications give us important information for the diagnosis of tumor prior to biopsy or tumor resection and for the determination of the treatment strategy and possible complications after surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of ENT, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland.
authors.forename: Jarosław
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Markowski
authors.affiliation: Department of ENT, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland.
authors.forename: Estera
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Jagosz-Kandziora
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Anatomy, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland.
authors.forename: Wirginia
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Likus
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathomorphology, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland.
authors.forename: Jacek
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pająk
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland.
authors.forename: Ewa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mrukwa-Kominek
authors.affiliation: Department of ENT, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland.
authors.forename: Jarosław
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Paluch
authors.affiliation: Outpatient Clinic for Treatment of Chronic Pain, Medical University of Silesia, Sosnowiec, Poland.
authors.forename: Włodzimierz
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Dziubdziela
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006748:Hospital Departments; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013508:Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects; D009915:Orbit / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D009918:Orbital Neoplasms / Q000145:classification / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D011044:Poland; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D055815:Young Adult