Orbital Infection with Dirofilaria

Brumback, G. F.; Morrison, Hyman; Weatherly, N. F.

doi:10.1097/00007611-196802000-00016

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“…Other parasitic granulomata have included dirofilariasis (Brumback, Morrison, and Weatherly, 1968) bilharzia, ascariasis, and amoebiasis (Mortada, 1968), and onchocerciasis (fig 1). LIPOGRANULOMA Orbital lipogranuloma was clearly defined by Coop (1961) as a type of so-called pseudotumour in which the granulomatous reaction is apparently aimed at the adipose tissue of the orbit and is considered to represent a response to fat necrosis ( fig 2).…”

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Pathology of 'pseudotumours' of the orbit: a review.

Garner¹

1973

J Clin Pathol

101

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The term pseudotumour of the orbit is unfortunate, since it merely purports to describe a negative quality of a considerable number of diverse pathological conditions. Among ophthalmologists it is common practice to limit the term to those lesions which are of an idiopathic inflammatory nature (Blodi and Gass, 1967), whereas Birch-Hirschfeld, who introduced the term, included all non-neoplastic disorders (Birch-Hirschfeld, 1905

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