Orbital neurofibromatosis in Sindhi patients from Pakistan

ABSTRACT

Although its dramatic appearance makes neurofibromatosis of the eyelid and orbit a widely recognized entity, its occurrence without accompanying changes in the other areas of the body is rare. In a recent study of 750 space-occupying lesions of the orbit in Pakistani patients, only nine [1.2%] had neurofibromas. We report neurofibromatosis confined to the eyelid and orbit in two Sindhi patients from Pakistan, a 22-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman. The attempts at surgical intervention proved dismally discouraging in both cases