[Controversy about the term inflammatory orbital pseudotumor]

The term of "inflammatory orbital pseudotumor" is met in the inflammatory pathology of the orbit and it has been modified through the time both in its frequency of usage and in its meaning. The authors make a review of the evolution of in the term usage and especially in its importance as a partial diagnosis and also as an attitude towards the paraclinical investigations. The goal of this work is to present the evolution of the problems implied by the term "orbital pseudotumor" that even today rises controversies.