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Glial Heterotopia of the orbit: A rare presentation

BACKGROUND: Glial heterotopias are rare, benign, congenital, midline, non-teratomatous extracranial glial tissue. They may masquerade as encephalocoele or dermoid cyst and mostly present in nose. Herein, we present an unusual case of glial heterotopia of the orbit with unilateral blindness. CASE PRE...

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Autores principales: Sitaula, Ranju, Shrestha, Gulshan B, Paudel, Nabin, Shrestha, Sneha, Shah, Dev N
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3226578/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22088230
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2415-11-34
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author Sitaula, Ranju
Shrestha, Gulshan B
Paudel, Nabin
Shrestha, Sneha
Shah, Dev N
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Shrestha, Gulshan B
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description BACKGROUND: Glial heterotopias are rare, benign, congenital, midline, non-teratomatous extracranial glial tissue. They may masquerade as encephalocoele or dermoid cyst and mostly present in nose. Herein, we present an unusual case of glial heterotopia of the orbit with unilateral blindness. CASE PRESENTATION: A 6 year-old-boy presented with a progressive painless mass over the nose and medial aspect of the left eye noticed since birth. On examination, the globe was displaced laterally by a firm, regular, mobile, non-pulsatile and non-tender medial mass. The affected eye had profound loss of vision. Computed tomography scan showed a large hypodense mass in the extraconal space with no intracranial connectivity and bony erosion. The child underwent total surgical excision of the mass and histopathological examination confirmed glial heterotopia of the orbit. CONCLUSION: Though the incidence of this condition is rare, the need of appropriate diagnosis and management of such mass to prevent the visual and cosmetic deterioration is warranted. To our knowledge this is the first reported case of Glial heterotopia of orbit causing unilateral blindness.
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spelling pubmed-32265782011-11-30 Glial Heterotopia of the orbit: A rare presentation Sitaula, Ranju Shrestha, Gulshan B Paudel, Nabin Shrestha, Sneha Shah, Dev N BMC Ophthalmol Case Report BACKGROUND: Glial heterotopias are rare, benign, congenital, midline, non-teratomatous extracranial glial tissue. They may masquerade as encephalocoele or dermoid cyst and mostly present in nose. Herein, we present an unusual case of glial heterotopia of the orbit with unilateral blindness. CASE PRESENTATION: A 6 year-old-boy presented with a progressive painless mass over the nose and medial aspect of the left eye noticed since birth. On examination, the globe was displaced laterally by a firm, regular, mobile, non-pulsatile and non-tender medial mass. The affected eye had profound loss of vision. Computed tomography scan showed a large hypodense mass in the extraconal space with no intracranial connectivity and bony erosion. The child underwent total surgical excision of the mass and histopathological examination confirmed glial heterotopia of the orbit. CONCLUSION: Though the incidence of this condition is rare, the need of appropriate diagnosis and management of such mass to prevent the visual and cosmetic deterioration is warranted. To our knowledge this is the first reported case of Glial heterotopia of orbit causing unilateral blindness. BioMed Central 2011-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3226578/ /pubmed/22088230 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2415-11-34 Text en Copyright ©2011 Sitaula et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sitaula, Ranju
Shrestha, Gulshan B
Paudel, Nabin
Shrestha, Sneha
Shah, Dev N
Glial Heterotopia of the orbit: A rare presentation
title Glial Heterotopia of the orbit: A rare presentation
title_full Glial Heterotopia of the orbit: A rare presentation
title_fullStr Glial Heterotopia of the orbit: A rare presentation
title_full_unstemmed Glial Heterotopia of the orbit: A rare presentation
title_short Glial Heterotopia of the orbit: A rare presentation
title_sort glial heterotopia of the orbit: a rare presentation
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3226578/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22088230
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2415-11-34
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