Eye
Orbit and optic nerve
Mucocele of orbit
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PubMed Search: Mucocele [title] orbit
Orbit and optic nerve
Mucocele of orbit
Author: Nat Pernick, M.D.
Topic Completed: 1 February 2014
Minor changes: 4 April 2019
Copyright: 2004-2019, PathologyOutlines.com, Inc.
PubMed Search: Mucocele [title] orbit
Cite this page: Pernick N. Orbit and optic nerve: mucocele of orbit. PathologyOutlines.com website. http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/eyeorbitmucocele.html. Accessed May 28th, 2020.
Definition / general
- Due to chronic inflammation of frontal or ethmoid sinus
- Lesion erodes sinus wall, produces downward and lateral displacement of globe
- Insidious onset with slow and asymptomatic enlargement
Microscopic (histologic) description
- Cystic mass lined by ciliated, mucus-secreting columnar epithelium with scarring and inflammation
