OBJECTIVE: To describe two patients in whom orbital lymphoma was misdiagnosed and treated as scleritis. DESIGN: Two case reports with clinicopathologic correlation. METHODS: Each patient underwent clinical, radiologic, and histologic assessment. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Histologic confirmation of the diagnosis of orbital lymphoma. RESULTS: The two patients who had been diagnosed and treated as having scleritis were found to have orbital lymphoma. CONCLUSION: The differential diagnosis for scleritis should include lymphoma.
OBJECTIVE: To describe two patients in whom orbital lymphoma was misdiagnosed and treated as scleritis. DESIGN: Two case reports with clinicopathologic correlation. METHODS: Each patient underwent clinical, radiologic, and histologic assessment. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Histologic confirmation of the diagnosis of orbital lymphoma. RESULTS: The two patients who had been diagnosed and treated as having scleritis were found to have orbital lymphoma. CONCLUSION: The differential diagnosis for scleritis should include lymphoma.