Ossifying cystic odontogenic and Schneiderian choristoma of the orbit

Abstract

A 12-year-old girl presented with a left infraorbital lesion, causing upward globe displacement. Imaging confirmed a mass between the globe and the orbital floor. The lesion was removed via a sub-ciliary approach and histology revealed a a mature tooth along with a periodontal ligament, oral-type mucinous glands and bone. Six years later a mass recurred at exactly the same site and on this occasion, revealed cysts containing mucin and lined by Schneiderian type epithelium. A rather complex combination of a tooth, lamellar bone, mucinous oral type glands and Schneiderian cystic epithelium is highly unusual and we have called the lesion "ossifying cystic odontogenic and Schneiderian choristoma of the orbit."