Eye
Orbit & optic nerve
Mucocele-orbit
Author: Nat Pernick, M.D.
Last author update: 1 February 2014
Last staff update: 24 December 2020
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PubMed Search: Mucocele [title] orbit
Cite this page: Pernick N. Mucocele-orbit. PathologyOutlines.com website. https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/eyeorbitmucocele.html. Accessed September 21st, 2023.
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
