The course and prognosis of orbital tumors as influenced by surgical operations for their removal / by Charles Stedman Bull.

  • Bull, Charles Stedman, 1844-1912.
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[1896]
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Credit: The course and prognosis of orbital tumors as influenced by surgical operations for their removal / by Charles Stedman Bull. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pseudomembranous in character, and which ended in orbital cellulitis and loss of sight, though the eyeball.did not suppurate. One year later he began to complain of pain in left orbit and soon after the left eye began to protrude. When I saw him, four months later, the eye protruded forwards, inwards, and downwards, and was immovable, and there was constant pain. A tumor could be distinctly felt on the outer wall and roof of the orbit. An operation was urged and was done at once. The eye was enucleated and the contents of the orbit were removed. The roof and outer wall were found extensively diseased, and also the floor of the orbit far back, and in one place in the roof there was a hole leading into the anterior fossa of the skull. This had not been suspected. The patient did well for about four months and then the disease seemed to return all at once in numerous foci in the orbit. The frontal headache returned with great intensity and, owing to the opening into the cranial cavity, I declined to operate again. The patient, however, lived for nearly fourteen months after the operation and died of exhaus- tion, with no more cerebral symptoms than the severe head- ache which he had so long.