Multiple choroidal osteomas developing in association with recurrent orbital inflammatory pseudotumor

Arch Ophthalmol. 1983 Nov;101(11):1724-7. doi: 10.1001/archopht.1983.01040020726012.

Abstract

Multiple choroidal osteomas developed in a 10-year-old black girl during recurrent episodes of bilateral orbital inflammatory pseudotumor, mild endophthalmitis, and a transient period of mild secondary hyperparathyroidism. The preponderance of these tumors in girls and women suggests that sex hormones may play a role in their pathogenesis; in our case, inflammation also seems to have been an important factor.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Child
  • Choroid Neoplasms* / diagnosis
  • Choroid Neoplasms* / etiology
  • Endophthalmitis / complications
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hyperparathyroidism, Secondary / etiology
  • Inflammation
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary* / diagnosis
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary* / etiology
  • Orbital Diseases* / complications
  • Osteoma* / diagnosis
  • Osteoma* / etiology
  • Recurrence