PLASMACYTOMA MANIFESTING AS RECURRENT CELLULITIS AND HEMATIC CYST OF THE ORBIT

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.