A complete update of a classic reference by specialists at the Mayo Clinic, Henderson's Orbital Tumors, Fourth edition collates the Clinic's fifty years' experience in managing tumors involving the orbit.

Drawing on case reports and extensive follow-up data from over 1,700 patients treated at the Clinic, the authors formulate comprehensive guidelines on diagnosis and medical and surgical treatment of the entire spectrum of orbital tumors.

This new edition reflects the latest advances in diagnosis and treatment, including:

• improved imaging technology
• more accurate pathologic diagnosis
• new radiotherapy options
• new surgical approaches
• therapy using monoclonal antibodies

More than 460 illustrations, 43 in full color, complement the text.

Contents

Diagnosis of Orbital Tumors

1. Evaluation of the Patient
2. Orbital Imaging and Radiography

The Individual Tumors

3. The Tumor Survey
4. Cysts and Celes
5. Fibrous and Connective Tissue Tumors and Proliferations
6. Fibro-osseous, Osseous, Cartilaginous, Vascular, and Inflammatory Tumors of Orbital Bone
7. Tumors of Primitive Mesoderm, Striated Muscle, Adipose Tissue and Smooth Muscle
8. Tumors of Peripheral Nerve Sheath Origin
9. Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors
10. Vascular Hamartomas, Hyperplasia, and Neoplasms
11. Vascular Malformations
12. Malignant Melanoma
13. Hematopoietic Tumors
14. Histiocytic Disorders
15. Primary Epithelial Neoplasms
16. Secondary Epithelial Neoplasms
17. Metastatic Carcinomas
18. Meningioma
19. Pseudotumors
20. Miscellaneous Orbital Tumors

The Surgical Approaches to Orbital Tumors

21. Orbital Surgery

Index

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