Generally, tumors, as well
as inflammations, transpire behind the eye in any individual. Orbital tumor
refers to any tumor located in the orbit. A bony socket that is positioned in
front of a skull that holds eye is called orbit.
A socket is considered as a
complex composition that comprises of muscles, connective tissue, and nerves.
The shape of a socket is extended in front and tapering towards back side.
Orbit helps in protecting eyeball and help in bearing for optic nerve to move
from eye to brain. Furthermore, an optical region that involves surrounding
bone and muscles assists to control eye, blood vessels, and nerves.
However, tumors may arise
from any of structures that are present in orbit or eye. An orbital tumor can
be mild or deadly and they can be either primary, where tumor introduces or
metastatic which means there is spreading of another cancer anywhere in a body.
Most children are suffering from orbital tumors while other tumors are usually
diagnosed in adults.
There
are different types of Orbital Tumor that can be caused in any individual. Let
us discuss-
- Sacromas orbital tumor-It arises from fatty tissue or muscle
- Optic Gliomas-This tumor arise from supporting cells in brain called glial cells
- Meningiomas-orbital tumor rises in meninges that enclose the brain and optic nerve and acts as a protective layer.
- Neurofibromas or Schwannomas Orbital Tumor-It arise from Schwann Cells that embraces nerve in sheaths.
- Hemangiomas, as well as lymphangiomas - These orbital tumors, originate in a vascular system.
- Fibrous Histiocytomas-This Orbital Tumor usually notices in children and are develop from embryonic cells in the body.
However cavernous hemangioma
is most common benign orbit tumor that originally arises in young or middle age
people. Therefore these orbital
tumors can be removed surgically that includes endovascular
surgery, traditional methods of surgery, chemotherapy or other medical
interferences by experts or surgeons like Dr.Debraj Shome.
How
is Orbital Tumor Cause?
- Most orbital tumors that cause in children follows from developmental deformities.
- Some of them are caused when cancer from one part of the body like lung, breast expands to orbit.
- However, Skin Cancer-Melanoma can also metastasize to orbit and cause orbital Tumor
Symptoms
of Orbital Tumour
- Impacts on visibility like problem of double vision and vision loss as well as extra ocular muscle functions
- Cause pain or feeling of stress in eye socket
- A projection of the eye called exophthalmos.
Treatments
for Orbital Tumor
However orbital tumor can be
totally removed with help of various surgeries like orbitotomy, which involves
opening of orbit and removing of tumor completely from the body. In case of
tumors are not completely removed with surgery, and then external beam
radiation therapy can be used.
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