Author(s)

Afshin Tajdini, Mazen Sinjab, Somer Hassan

Department of Ophthalmology, Al-Mouasat Hospital, Damascus, Syria..

In contrast to intraocular metastases, orbital metastases are a rare manifestation of systemic malignancies; such orbital metastases account for only 1% - 13% of all orbital tumors. Such tumors grow rapidly; they may undergo necrosis, as the rate of tumor angiogenesis cannot keep pace with the rapidly expanding mass. Here, we report a rare case of an orbital metastasis from a nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Proptosis; Orbital Metastasis; Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma; Undifferentiated Carcinoma

A. Tajdini, M. Sinjab and S. Hassan, "A Rapidly Progressive Proptosis, a Case Report," Open Journal of Ophthalmology, Vol. 2 No. 2, 2012, pp. 37-39. doi: 10.4236/ojoph.2012.22009.