[Clinical aspects of inflammatory diseases of the orbit of autoimmune origin]

Basing on her clinical experience, the author describes and distinguishes three autoimmune diseases of the orbit, clinically coursing like a true tumor of the orbit, but characterized by morphologic signs of nonspecific inflammatory granulomatous process: orbital vasculitis (pseudotumor variety), Wegener's disease, and orbital sarcoidosis (Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann's disease).