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An unusual ophthalmic tumour in a 5‐year‐old boy
Author(s) -
Jensen Jørgen Elmo,
Fledelius Hans C.,
Prause Jan U.,
Scherfig Erik
Publication year - 1992
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.1755-3768.1992.tb04941.x
Subject(s) - medicine , orbit (dynamics) , lesion , posterior segment of eyeball , surgery , anatomy , engineering , aerospace engineering
A rare tumour in a 5‐year‐old boy is presented and discussed. In time and location the story had two parts (Fig. 1): 1) a conjunctival granuloma at the nasal limbus of the right eye was surgically removed. 2) a few months later a huge lesion presented in the posterior segment of the same eye. Was it an ocular tumour with extension to the orbit or an orbital process with impression or invasion of the eye? Repeated surgical biopsies have indicated nodular scleritis of the posterior eye segment as the definitive diagnosis.