The Dangers of Orbital Tumors

Many patients suffering from orbital tumors have numerous concerns about the treatment of the tumor after the discovery of the intraorbital tumor, because most of the patients do not have any symptoms when the tumor is discovered, and because of the possible complications that may occur in blind surgery, people hesitate to face the intraorbital tumor with or without treatment and between how to treat it. According to the harms that intraorbital tumor may cause to patients, the treatment method will be chosen. 1.Impact on appearance: When intraorbital tumor occurs, the primary problem is to affect the appearance, for superficial orbital tumor or tumor of eyelid can be manifested as limited swelling of eyelid, or even mechanical eyelid ptosis due to the compression of the tumor, moreover, some tumors such as melanoma or hemangioma also obviously affect the appearance due to the manifestation of special color. Some tumors such as melanoma or hemangioma also affect the appearance significantly due to their special color. For deep orbital tumors, they can push and squeeze the eyeball and cause eyeball protrusion or even eyeball displacement, or press the blood vessels in the orbit and cause congestion or bruise of the eye. Impact on vision: Many orbital tumors are located in the tip of the orbit due to their special position or large size, which compress the optic nerve, leading to damage of optic nerve and causing obvious vision impairment. Even some tumors, especially hemangioma or vascular malformation, have the possibility of acute hemorrhage, which may cause acute damage of visual function. Compression of nerves: There are many important nerves running in the orbit, which innervate the sensation of the eye, the movement of the eyeball, the movement of the eyelid, etc. Therefore, the compression of intraorbital nerves by the tumor can cause ptosis, ocular motility disorders, strabismus, abnormal sensation of the eye and so on. 4.Impact on life: most of the tumors in the orbit are benign tumors, which usually do not affect the life, but there is a possibility of malignant tumors, which need to be treated actively because these tumors may spread locally and metastasize all over the body at any time, and even affect the life. Impact on cranium and brain: Since orbits communicate with cranium and brain, there are many communication holes, so some tumors will spread and grow to the cranium, leading to the occurrence of corresponding cranial and brain symptoms. There are many kinds of intraorbital tumors with various manifestations, and the characteristics of various tumors are very different, so the treatment and prognosis are also very different. Therefore, it is necessary to formulate a reasonable and individualized treatment plan according to different situations.