SOLITARY NEUROFIBROMA OF THE ORBIT

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Abstract
A rather small number of encapsulated tumors of a peripheral nerve within the orbit have been reported. Only a few of these lend themselves to precise classification owing to the inadequacy of the methods employed in working out their histology. To dispel the confusion that exists in the designation of these orbital growths, and to bring them into alinement with the satisfactory classification that exists for similar tumors in other parts of the body, a number of cases need to be studied from the standpoint of modern histologic technic. The tumor in the following case has been completely studied by numerous staining methods, and according to the most recent classification of encapsulated tumors of the peripheral nerve it should be called a neurofibroma of the Recklinghausen type. REPORT OF CASE History.—E. C., a youth, aged 20, was referred by Dr. H. S. Crowe, Schreiber, Ontario, because of

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