Some unusual cases of orbital tumors emphasizing the necessity of careful differential diagnosis / by Charles Stedman Bull.

  • Bull, Charles Stedman, 1844-1912.
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[1895]
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    Reprinted from the New Yorh MedicalJournal for November 16, 1895. SOME UNUSUAL CASES OF ORBITAL TUMORS EMPHASIZING THE NECESSITY OF CAREFUL DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS * By CHARLES STEDMAN BULL, M. D. Case I. Abscess of the Ethmoid Cells.—On August 23, 1886, a woman, aged twenty-seven years, was sent to me in the country, where I was staying, for my advice for some trou- ble with the left eye which had existed for some months, and which had occasioned her considerable anxiety because of her family history. She was a single woman in apparently per- fect health, and on casual inspection there seemed to be noth- ing the matter with her eyes. She had first noticed a slight fullness of the inner end of the left upper lid, unaccompanied by any subjective symptom. This slight swelling had in- creased very gradually but without either pain or redness. Within the previous week she had become conscious of a dull ache in the orbit. A careful examination revealed the presence of a small, hard, resisting lump at the upper and inner angle of the orbit, just above the lacrymal bone, which pushed the lid before it. It seemed to be firmly attached to the periosteum of the orbit by a rather broad base, but I * Read before the New York State Medical Association, October 15, 1895. Copyright, 1805, bt D. Appleton and Company.