Author:
Chang Minwook,Lee Youngseok,Baek Sehyun,Lee Tae Soo
Abstract
Abstract
Background
This report describes a recurrent orbital glomus tumor in an Asian patient.
Case presentation
A healthy 50-year-old Korean man had progressive right exophthalmos and a soft mass on his right lower lid for 6 months. We evaluated the mass using CT and MRI, and performed excisional biopsy and pathologic examination. Pathologically, the mass was a glomus tumor. Although proptosis of the right eye decreased, one month after surgery it increased to almost the same level as before surgery.
Conclusions
This is the first report of an Asian patient with an orbital glomus tumor that demonstrated rapid re-growth after incision without pain or visual problems.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Ophthalmology,General Medicine
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