PURPOSE: To analyze and establish clinical-radiological findings of orbital mucocele. METHODS: Clinical analysis and image of 166 patients with expansive orbital lesions submitted to third generation Siemens Somaton DR computed tomography from February 1986 to February 1995. RESULTS: The most common clinical findings were mass and proptosis. On computed tomography, the typical finding was mass with low density, coming from paranasal sinuses presenting adjacent bone destruction and orbital invasion, with displacement of ocular globe. CONCLUSION: The development of computed tomography was an important mark in orbital studies because it allows incredible anatomic imagings, yielding information about the pathologic process like its localization and anatomic relation.
Mucocele; Orbit; Orbit; Tomography, x-ray computed; Exophthalmos; Orbital neoplasms
