Hematoma ("black eye") is the most common result of a blunt trauma to the eyelids or forehead and is usually safe, yet it is very important to exclude the presence of the next more serious conditions in the patient.
Sympathetic ophthalmia is an extremely rare, bilateral, granulomatous panoveitis that develops after a penetrating injury complicated by prolapse of the choroid, or after intraocular operations (less often).
The neoplasms of this group include dermoid and epidermoid (cholesteatoma) cysts, which constitute about 9% among all orbital tumors. Their growth is accelerated by the transferred trauma, cases of malignancy are described.
Tumors of the orbit make up 23-25% of all neoplasms of the organ of vision. In it, virtually all tumors that occur in humans develop. The incidence of primary tumors is 94.5%, secondary and metastatic tumors - 5.5%.
The doctrine of retinoblastoma has more than four centuries of history (the first description of retinoblastoma was given in 1597 by Petraus Pawius from Amsterdam). For many years, she was referred to a rare tumor - no more than 1 case per 30 000 live births.
Melanoma of the choroid begins to develop in the outer layers of the choroid, and, according to the latest data, is represented by two basic cellular types: spindle cell A and epithelioid.
Melanoma of the ciliary body is less than 1% of all melanoma of the choroid. The tumor develops in the fifth to sixth decades of life, but there is information in the literature about the occurrence of melanoma of the indicated localization in children.
Melanoma of the iris develops at the age of 9 to 84 years, more often in the fifth decade of life in women. At half of patients duration of disease before the reference to the doctor makes about 1 year, at the others a dark stain on an iris notice in the childhood.
