PURE FIBROMA OF THE ORBIT
- 1 February 1934
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Ophthalmology (1950)
- Vol. 11 (2) , 279-282
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archopht.1934.00830090065008
Abstract
The report of a case and a review of the literature on pure fibroma of the orbit are made because of the extreme infrequency of similar reports on this type of orbital neoplasm. Nine cases of orbital tumors of various kinds were recorded in 1930 in 35,869 patients with ocular conditions who were treated at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. In reviewing the literature strictly for pure fibromas of the orbit, we find that this type of tumor is extremely rare. Birch-Hirschfeld,1 in 1930, after a careful review of the literature, mentioned 30 cases, including all the mixed forms of this tumor: i. e., fibro-adenoma, angiofibroma, fibromyxoma and neurofibroma. It is of interest to learn from this report that a fibroma of the orbit may be congenital. The tumor in Feyer's2 case was a neoplasm of this type, which was found in the orbit of aKeywords
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