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CAN BENIGN LYMPHADENOSIS (LYMPHOMATOSIS) OF THE ORBIT OCCASIONALLY BE A PARANEOPLASIA?
Author(s) -
BÄFVERSTEDT BO
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
acta ophthalmologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.534
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1755-3768
pISSN - 1755-375X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-3768.1974.tb00389.x
Subject(s) - orbit (dynamics) , medicine , pathology , dermatology , engineering , aerospace engineering
A man with benign lymphadenosis of the orbit (published in this journal in 1956) remained free from symptoms after X‐ray treatment but subsequently died of liver metastases from a malignant epithelioma of unknown origin. Earlier experience of benign lymphadenosis of the skin indicates that this can appear in association with and probably secondary to malignant tumours in the skin or internal organs. It is postulated that the benign lymphadenosis of the orbit in the current case can have been such a paraneoplastic phenomenon.