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Published on: May 12, 2011
Isolated intraorbital schwannoma arising from the abducens nerve
1Department of Neurosurgery, IGEA Hospital, via Marcona 69, 20129, Milan, Italy. neurosurgery@casadicuraigea.it
Case Report:
A case of isolated schwannoma of the orbit, arising from the terminal branches of the abducens nerve to the lateral rectus muscle, is reported. The patient presented with a painless proptosis of the left eye.
Discussion:
Preoperative diagnosis of benign intraorbital neoplasm was made by means of CT and MR scans; the mass was radically excised through a microsurgical lateral orbitotomy and the pathological examination revealed a schwannoma. Features of orbital schwannoma are described, together with some details concerning the surgical strategy and the history of the evolution of the lateral orbitotomy.
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