Hybrid Schwannoma-Perineurioma of the Orbit

Ophthalmic Plast Reconstr Surg. 2024 Jan-Feb;40(1):e1-e4. doi: 10.1097/IOP.0000000000002484. Epub 2023 Aug 8.

Abstract

A 52-year-old woman presented with a 6-month history of progressive right proptosis associated with intermittent right retrobulbar and facial pain. MRI revealed a heterogeneously enhancing, well-circumscribed, ovoid, soft tissue mass in the intraconal space near the right orbital apex displacing the optic nerve medially. Excisional biopsy established the diagnosis of a schwannoma-perineurioma hybrid peripheral nerve sheath tumor (HPNST). This case represents only the second reported occurrence, to our knowledge, of an orbital schwannoma-perineurioma HPNST.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Exophthalmos*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Nerve Sheath Neoplasms* / diagnosis
  • Neurilemmoma* / diagnosis
  • Neurilemmoma* / pathology
  • Orbit / diagnostic imaging
  • Orbit / pathology
  • Orbital Neoplasms* / pathology