Table 1 Overview of orbital tumours and tumour-like lesions using a compartment based approach. Asterisks indicate possible, however, rare disease manifestations in the respective compartment
From: Orbital tumours and tumour-like lesions: exploring the armamentarium of multiparametric imaging
Intraconal and conal masses | Extraconal masses | Multi-compartment masses | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Globe | Optic nerve sheath complex | Muscle cone and retrobulbar fat | Orbital appendages (lacrimal gland and sac) | Other extraconal structures, bones, and sinuses | Eyelid | Â |
Retinoblastoma | Optic nerve glioma | Cavernous hemangioma | Epithelial lacrimal gland tumours (benign mixed tumour, adenoid cystic carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, undifferentiated carcinoma) | Dermoid/epidermoid | Eyelid tumours (squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma, melanoma, lymphoma) | Vascular malformations |
Hemangioblastoma | Optic nerve sheath meningoma | Pseudotumour | Lymphoma, leukemia | Rhabdomyosarcoma | Lymphoma | |
Uveal melanoma | Lymphoma*, leukemia* | Schwannoma*of cranial nerves III, IV, VI | Sarcoidosis | Schwannoma and perineural spread V1 and V2 | Rhabdomyosarcoma | |
Chorioid metastases | Pseudotumour | Fibrous dysplasia, osteoma, metastases, myeloma | Plexiform neurofibroma | |||
Metastases | ||||||
Pseudotumour | ||||||
Ig-G4 related disease | ||||||