Complex orbital angiomyoma with features of a lymphangiohemangioma

Ophthalmic Plast Reconstr Surg. 2013 Mar-Apr;29(2):e61-5. doi: 10.1097/IOP.0b013e31826b777d.

Abstract

A 31-year-old woman developed left frontal headache and retrobulbar pain with exotropia and mild limitation of upgaze without proptosis. Imaging studies disclosed a circumscribed mass measuring 1.5 cm in the greatest diameter. At surgery, the lesion was adherent to the surrounding normal orbital tissues, making for a difficult and dangerous resection. Histopathologically and immunohistochemically, the lesion was a mixed cavernous angiomatous (CD31-positive) and lymphangiomatous (D2-40-positive) tumor with abundant interstitial smooth muscle. Such lesions can present significant surgical challenges due to incomplete pseudoencapsulation.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Female
  • Hemangioma, Cavernous / diagnostic imaging
  • Hemangioma, Cavernous / pathology*
  • Hemangioma, Cavernous / surgery
  • Humans
  • Lymphangioma / diagnostic imaging
  • Lymphangioma / pathology*
  • Lymphangioma / surgery
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Neoplasms, Complex and Mixed / diagnostic imaging
  • Neoplasms, Complex and Mixed / pathology*
  • Neoplasms, Complex and Mixed / surgery
  • Orbital Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Orbital Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Orbital Neoplasms / surgery
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Visual Acuity