Congenital orbital teratoma presenting as microphthalmos with cyst

We report a rare case of non-communicating large orbital cyst with microphthalmos which was surgically separated from the globe and excised. Histopathology reported it to be a teratoma. Congenital cystic teratoma should be a part of the differential diagnosis in an infant presenting with a clinical...

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Autores principales: Singh, Usha, Subramanian, Aparna, Bal, Amanjeet
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Brief Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2812773/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19861756
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.57152
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description We report a rare case of non-communicating large orbital cyst with microphthalmos which was surgically separated from the globe and excised. Histopathology reported it to be a teratoma. Congenital cystic teratoma should be a part of the differential diagnosis in an infant presenting with a clinical picture of microphthalmos with orbital cyst, in view of the different management required.
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spelling pubmed-28127732010-02-08 Congenital orbital teratoma presenting as microphthalmos with cyst Singh, Usha Subramanian, Aparna Bal, Amanjeet Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications We report a rare case of non-communicating large orbital cyst with microphthalmos which was surgically separated from the globe and excised. Histopathology reported it to be a teratoma. Congenital cystic teratoma should be a part of the differential diagnosis in an infant presenting with a clinical picture of microphthalmos with orbital cyst, in view of the different management required. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2812773/ /pubmed/19861756 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.57152 Text en © Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Brief Communications
Singh, Usha
Subramanian, Aparna
Bal, Amanjeet
Congenital orbital teratoma presenting as microphthalmos with cyst
title Congenital orbital teratoma presenting as microphthalmos with cyst
title_full Congenital orbital teratoma presenting as microphthalmos with cyst
title_fullStr Congenital orbital teratoma presenting as microphthalmos with cyst
title_full_unstemmed Congenital orbital teratoma presenting as microphthalmos with cyst
title_short Congenital orbital teratoma presenting as microphthalmos with cyst
title_sort congenital orbital teratoma presenting as microphthalmos with cyst
topic Brief Communications
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2812773/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19861756
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.57152
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