Intraconal orbital lesions
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Intraconal orbital lesions are broadly divided tointo two main groups; those with or without involvement of the optic nerves:
Lesions with optic nerve involvement:
- optic nerve glioma
- optic nerve meningioma
- optic neuritis
- pseudotumour
-
lymphoma
andand leukaemia - intracranial hypertension
- retinoblastoma
Lesions without optic nerve involvement:
- cavernous haemangioma: also known as slow flow venous malformation; most common orbital vascular lesion, usually in lateral intraconal space
- capillary haemangioma
- orbital varix
- arteriovenous malformation
- retro-orbital haematoma
- lymphangioma
- schwannoma
- sarcoidosis
- Erdheim-Chester Disease
- coloboma
- metastasis: breast cancer, melanoma, etc
- melanoma: primary or metastasis
-<p><strong>Intraconal orbital lesions</strong> are broadly divided to two main groups; those with or without involvement of the optic nerves:</p><p>Lesions with optic nerve involvement:</p><ul>- +<p><strong>Intraconal orbital lesions</strong> are broadly divided into two main groups; those with or without involvement of the optic nerves:</p><p>Lesions with optic nerve involvement:</p><ul>
-<li>lymphoma and leukaemia</li>- +<li>
- +<a title="Lymphoma of the orbit" href="/articles/orbital-lymphoma">lymphoma</a> and leukaemia</li>
-<li>metastasis: breast cancer, etc</li>- +<li>metastasis: breast cancer, melanoma, etc</li>
-<a href="/articles/primary-uveal-malignant-melanoma">melanoma</a> primary or metastasis</li>- +<a href="/articles/primary-uveal-malignant-melanoma">melanoma</a>: primary or metastasis</li>
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