Necrobiotic Xanthogranuloma With Predominant Periorbital Involvement Journal Articles

abstract

• We present an unusual variant of necrobiotic xanthogranuloma with periorbital involvement. Our patient had an unusually complicated course due to initial misdiagnosis and patient refusal to undergo treatment. We present her clinical course and review the literature on this rare lesion.

authors

• Oestreicher, James
• Dookeran, Ravi
• Nijhawan, Navdeep
• Kolin, Arnost

status

• published 

publication date

• November 2010

has subject area

• 1113 Opthalmology and Optometry (FoR)
• Aged, 80 and over (MeSH)
• Corneal Perforation (MeSH)
• Diagnosis, Differential (MeSH)
• Eye Enucleation (MeSH)
• Fatal Outcome (MeSH)
• Female (MeSH)
• Humans (MeSH)
• Necrobiotic Xanthogranuloma (MeSH)
• Ophthalmology & Optometry (Science Metrix)
• Orbital Cellulitis (MeSH)

published in

• Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery  Journal

keywords

• Aged, 80 and over
• Corneal Perforation
• Diagnosis, Differential
• Eye Enucleation
• Fatal Outcome
• Female
• Humans
• Necrobiotic Xanthogranuloma
• Orbital Cellulitis

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1097/iop.0b013e3181d92955

PubMed ID

• 21099384

start page

• 473

end page

• 475

volume

• 26

issue

• 6