Proptosis is a Pediatric Dilemma - Abstract
Childhood proptosis is quite different from that of the adult. While thyroid orbitopathy is the most common cause in adults, proptosis among children can be caused by: infection, inflammation, vascular and developmental malformation and finally malignancies. Orbital cellulitis and malignancies are considered the most common causes in children. In the present work we review the common causes of proptosis in children and report a series of four cases with proptosis caused by different malignant lesions retrieved from Pediatric Oncology Unit, Oncology Center of Mansoura University, Egypt in addition to providing an approach to a child with proptosis.