Rare Cause Fororbital Mass in an African American - Abstract
While sarcoidosis is a disease process that classically affects the lung parenchyma, presentation of sarcoidosis can be extrapulmonary in up to 30% of the cases. Essentially any organ can be involved in sarcoidosis; however, specific patient populations and risk factors are associated with varying degree of extrapulomonary sarcoidosis. In particular, orbital sarcoidosis has been found to be more common in women who are at least 50 years old although it still rare compared to other forms of ophthalmic involvement such as uveitis (approximately 25-60% of patients with systemic sarcoidosis). Furthermore, orbital involvement as a presentation of sarcoidosis has very few reported cases with conflicting statistics on incidence. We present a case of an African American female pain and pressure surrounding left eye gradually worsening over a month, who was subsequently diagnosed with orbital sarcoidosis.