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Lesions in the orbits are characterized by unilateral or bilateral proptosis and/or disorders of ocular motion. Before the advent of computed tomography diagnosis was made on the basis of conventional radiological studies of the skull and the orbits as well as with ultrasonog-raphy, fluorescence angiography, phlebography of the ophthalmic vein, and arteriograms of the internal and external carotid arteries. The introduction of CT has brought about a correspondingdecline in the use of invasive procedures (Wende et al. 1977).

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Bradač, G.B. et al. (1981). Computed Tomography in Orbital Lesions. In: Kazner, E., Wende, S., Grumme, T., Lanksch, W., Stochdorph, O. (eds) Computed Tomography in Intracranial Tumors. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96653-8_7

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