A Case of Orbital Neurilemmoma.

Baik, Woon Kyu; Lee, Dong Gi; Kim, Sang Min

Case Report

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1980;21(4):621-623.
Published online April 1, 1980.

A Case of Orbital Neurilemmoma.

Woon Kyu Baik, Dong Gi Lee, Sang Min Kim

Department of Ophthalmology, Kyung Hee University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

안와 Neurilemmoma 1예

김상민(Sang Min Kim),백운규(Woon Kyu Paek),이동기(Dong Ki Lee)

Abstract

Neurilemmoma (Schwannoma) is a extremely rare benign tumor which origin is thought to be of nerve sheath of peripheral, cranial and sympathetic nerve. Here we report a case of orbital neurilemmoma which has grown more than two years in the female patient of thirty years old. She visited to our hospital because of decreased visual acuity and protrusion of the right eyeball. Surgery of the orbit revealed a wall-nut sized, well encapsulated, gray colored, egg-shaped tumor which was confirmed by biopsy.