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Orbital Tumors
Orbital Tumors - Neurofibroma

    General

    • most common nerve sheath tumor
    • hamartoma of endoneural fibroblasts, Schwann cells, axons
    • localized
    • present in early to middle age
    • like schwannomas, 10% have NF1

    Imaging

    • not encapsulated but cannot tell from imaging

    Pathology

    Surgery

    • can be multiple, plexiform (diffuse)
    • remove by superior orbitotomy, can undergo malignant transformation

 

   

 

 


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