Orbital tuberculosis in childhood with intracranial extension: a case report. 2010

Navneet Tuli
Department of Ophthalmology, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, HIHT University, Swami Ram Nagar, Dehradun 248140, India. drnktuli@gmail.com.

The common causes of orbital masses in pediatric age group include pseudotumour, lymphomas, hemangioma and dermoid cyst. Orbital tuberculosis is rare especially in children. We report a case of 5 year old child who presented with proptosis and gross diminution of vision due to orbital tuberculoma. Ocular examination of the left eye revealed proptosis with the eyeball displaced downwards and forwards. Vision was counting finger close to face. CT Scan showed an extraconal soft tissue mass along posteromedial side of left orbit with lateral displacement of medial rectus muscle. On antitubercular treatment, proptosis regressed and visual recovery was observed over a period of six month vision, in the left eye at the last followup was 20/30.

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