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Orbital lymphoma misdiagnosed as scleritis
Suzanne E Dorey1, Brian J Clark, Viki A Christopoulos
1Department of Clinical Ophthalmology, Institute of Ophthalmology, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, England, United Kingdom.
Ophthalmology
|December 6, 2002
Abstract
Objective:
To describe two patients in whom orbital lymphoma was misdiagnosed and treated as scleritis.
Design:
Two case reports with clinicopathologic correlation.
Methods:
Each patient underwent clinical, radiologic, and histologic assessment.
Main Outcome Measure:
Histologic confirmation of the diagnosis of orbital lymphoma.
Results:
The two patients who had been diagnosed and treated as having scleritis were found to have orbital lymphoma.
Conclusion:
The differential diagnosis for scleritis should include lymphoma.