Rare tumour of the orbit / by John B. Story.

  • Story, John B.
Date:
1884
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Credit: Rare tumour of the orbit / by John B. Story. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    RAKE TUMOUR OF THE ORBIT.» The small tumour which I have to describe was removed from the left orbit of a healthy young girl, who presented herself some weeks ago at St. Mark's Ophthalmic Hospital, with the following history. She had always been healthy, and had never suffered from any inflammation or painful affection of the eyes or orbits, but all her life—that is to say, as long as her memory carried her back—she had noticed a small lump situated underneath her left lower eyelid towards the nasal side of the lid. This little lump became more prominent at certain times, and slightly discoloured, the discolouration being of a bluish hue, and the increase of size and change of colour being specially noticeable when she laughed or cried, or after stooping or taking violent exercise. Upon such occasions it sometimes became painful as well as prominent and discoloured. These changes bore no relation to the periods of the menstrual flow, and they were observed at an age when menstrua- tion had not appeared at all. The girl was twenty years old when she consulted me ; the little tumour had only been a cause of actual trouble and anxiety for a few months previously. On inspection, a small patch of a bluish hue could be observed below the margin of the left lower lid towards the nasal side. When the girl looked upwards this patch became more prominent, but it was at all times slightly raised above the level of the surrounding skin ; when she stooped down for a few moments the swelling very considerably increased, and the bluish hue became more intense. On palpation with the finger, a hard body, about the size of a small pea, could be felt beneath the discoloured skin. This little tumour felt stony hard, and was freely movable in all directions in the orbital cavity. It could even be drawn forwards and made to project over tlie bony edge of the orbit upon the » Read in the Pathological Section, May 2, 1884.