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  • Title: Lacrimal gland and fossa lesions: an approach to diagnosis and management.
    Author: Stewart WB, Krohel GB, Wright JE.
    Journal: Ophthalmology; 1979 May; 86(5):886-95. PubMed ID: 232548.
    Abstract:
    Lesions of the fossa of the lacrimal gland present special problems in diagnosis and management. Clinical recognition and differentiation of benign mixed cell lacrimal gland tumors from other inflammatory and neoplastic lesions of the lacrimal gland fossa are feasible and should provide the basis for the approach to proper management. Lesions conforming to the clinical picture of benign mixed cell lacrimal gland tumors need not undergo incisional biopsy, but require en bloc excision with adjacent tissues through a lateral orbitotomy to ensure complete excision and to prevent late recurrence. Incisional biopsy is indicated and should not be delayed in suspected infectious and noninfectious inflammatory lesions that have not responded rapidly to medical therapy, and in other lesions suspected of being neoplastic and not amenable to total local excision. An expedient approach to these lesions is essential if the prognosis of epithelial lacrimal gland neoplasms is to be improved.
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