Orbital floor dermoid: An unusual presentation

Dermoid cysts are developmental abnormal arrangement of tissues and are often evident soon after birth. Its occurrence in the orbit is relatively rare. We report a case of orbital floor dermoid in an 18-year-old female patient who presented with progressive, painless swelling in the lower eyelid ass...

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Autores principales: Yeola (Pate), Meenakshi, Joharapurkar, S R, Bhole, A M, Chawla, Manisha, Chopra, Sumit, Paliwal, Anup
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Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Brief Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2661519/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19075411
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author Yeola (Pate), Meenakshi
Joharapurkar, S R
Bhole, A M
Chawla, Manisha
Chopra, Sumit
Paliwal, Anup
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Joharapurkar, S R
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Chawla, Manisha
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description Dermoid cysts are developmental abnormal arrangement of tissues and are often evident soon after birth. Its occurrence in the orbit is relatively rare. We report a case of orbital floor dermoid in an 18-year-old female patient who presented with progressive, painless swelling in the lower eyelid associated with mild proptosis of three months duration. The lesion was excised completely, and histopathology confirmed the diagnosis of dermoid cyst.
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spelling pubmed-26615192009-03-27 Orbital floor dermoid: An unusual presentation Yeola (Pate), Meenakshi Joharapurkar, S R Bhole, A M Chawla, Manisha Chopra, Sumit Paliwal, Anup Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications Dermoid cysts are developmental abnormal arrangement of tissues and are often evident soon after birth. Its occurrence in the orbit is relatively rare. We report a case of orbital floor dermoid in an 18-year-old female patient who presented with progressive, painless swelling in the lower eyelid associated with mild proptosis of three months duration. The lesion was excised completely, and histopathology confirmed the diagnosis of dermoid cyst. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2661519/ /pubmed/19075411 Text en © Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Yeola (Pate), Meenakshi
Joharapurkar, S R
Bhole, A M
Chawla, Manisha
Chopra, Sumit
Paliwal, Anup
Orbital floor dermoid: An unusual presentation
title Orbital floor dermoid: An unusual presentation
title_full Orbital floor dermoid: An unusual presentation
title_fullStr Orbital floor dermoid: An unusual presentation
title_full_unstemmed Orbital floor dermoid: An unusual presentation
title_short Orbital floor dermoid: An unusual presentation
title_sort orbital floor dermoid: an unusual presentation
topic Brief Communications
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2661519/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19075411
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