Idiopathic inflammatory orbital myosites represent 10% of the orbital pseudotumors and 8% of the orbital pathologic processes in children. They are rarely described although they raise real diagnostic problems. The authors report the case of a 10-year old little girl who presented sudden proptosis. The clinical and radiological work up and the therapeutic test with corticosteroids were in favor of an inflammatory orbital myositis. The authors remind the clinical, radiological, and therapeutical aspects of this entity that remains very unfrequent in children and needs to be differenciated from rhabdomyosarcoma.
Orbital Pseudotumor/diagnosis , Adrenal Cortex Hormones/therapeutic use , Child , Diagnosis, Differential , Exophthalmos/etiology , Female , Humans , Orbital Neoplasms/diagnosis , Orbital Pseudotumor/complications , Orbital Pseudotumor/drug therapy , Rhabdomyosarcoma/diagnosis
Kaposi's sarcoma is a proliferative disease, probably induced by human herpes virus type 8 (HHV8). Its expression is cutaneous and visceral, with four clinical forms. An orbital location of Kaposi's sarcoma remains exceptional. In order to evaluate the epidemiological, clinical, and therapeutic objectives of this tumor location, we report a case of a 58-year-old patient hospitalized in the ophthalmology department for a surgically treated right orbital tumor.
Orbital Neoplasms , Sarcoma, Kaposi , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Orbital Neoplasms/diagnosis , Sarcoma, Kaposi/diagnosis
