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  • Title: Pulsating orbital plexiform neurofibroma and optic nerve glioma.
    Author: Binitie OP, Obikili AG.
    Journal: East Afr Med J; 1989 May; 66(5):362-4. PubMed ID: 2791937.
    Abstract:
    A 13-year old Nigerian boy presented with a painless swelling which had grown, over ten years, into a pulsatile monstrous deformity of the left side of the face. Histology of the excised tissue showed a plexiform neurofibroma. It manifested with cutaneous, ocular and bony features. There was also a left eye optic nerve glioma. The case is presented and used to highlight the clinicopathological manifestations of orbital plexiform neurofibroma.
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