Space-occupying Orbital Masses in Children

A review was done of 250 consecutive biopsies for orbital space-occupying lesions in children. Benign cystic lesions were by far the most common, accounting for 52% of the lesions. Inflammatory lesions, usually biopsied to exclude the diagnosis of rhabdomyosarcoma, accounted for 16%. Among the 250 biopsies there were 14 primary malignant tumors (6%), ten of which were rhabdomyosarcoma. Although rhabdomyosarcoma is not the most common...