K. Rappaport et al., PLASMACYTOMA MANIFESTING AS RECURRENT CELLULITIS AND HEMATIC CYST OF THE ORBIT, American journal of ophthalmology, 122(4), 1996, pp. 595-597
PURPOSE: To describe a patient with recurrent periorbital cellulitis a
nd orbital blood cyst as the initial manifestation of primary extramed
ullary plasmacytoma. METHODS: The chart, imaging studies, and histo pa
thologic examination results and literature on the subject were review
ed. RESULTS: Orbital surgery disclosed a hematic cyst along with a sol
itary plasma cell tumor. CONCLUSIONS: Periorbital cellulitis and pain
can be a manifestation of a plasma cell tumor, Bleeding may occur with
in a necrotic orbital tumor.