ORBITAL TUMORS – AN INDIAN ARMED FORCES TERTIARY CARE CENTRE EXPERIENCE

Chinmaya Srivastava; M S Sridhar; Sanjay Kumar Dhar; Saurabh Kumar Verma

Volume : IX, Issue : IX, September - 2019

ORBITAL TUMORS – AN INDIAN ARMED FORCES TERTIARY CARE CENTRE EXPERIENCE

Chinmaya Srivastava, M S Sridhar, Sanjay Kumar Dhar, Saurabh Kumar Verma

Abstract :

The neurosurgeon has a great deal to offer in the therapy of orbital tumors. Dr. Dandy‘s supposition that all orbital tumors could be approached by the intracranial route is certainly correct, but technical advances have made the medial and lateral approaches to the orbit more useful for most tumors and cause less morbidity which are confined to the orbit. For those which involve the posterior orbit and canal and have intracranial extensions, the intracranial approach is excellent. The location of the pathology within the orbit, relative to the optic nerve, should dictate the choice of approach. This is the key guiding principle for orbital approaches. In our institution for the period of three years from 2015 – 2018 various approaches were used in which the orbit was divided into four quadrants and orbital apex. The zones were allocated depending on the location of the tumor.