Inflammatory Diseases of the Orbit

1 Introduction.- 2 General Aspects of the Diagnosis of Inflammatory Diseases of the Orbit.- History Taking.- Optimal Use of Imaging Techniques.- Interdisciplinary Cooperation.- Characteristic Clinical Aspects of Inflammatory Orbital Diseases that Allow Diagnosis with a High Degree of Certainty.- Similar Aspects in Etiologically Different Diseases.- Different Aspects of Eight Patients with Clinically Proven Grave' Disease.- 3 Graves' Disease.- Definition and Pathogenesis.- Psychosomatic Aspects.- Clinical Picture and Patterns of CT Findings.- Differential Diagnosis.- 4 Inflammatory Orbital Pseudotumor.- Definition and Etiology.- Clinical Picture and CT Patterns.- 5 Inflammatory Diseases of the Lacrimal Gland.- Differential Diagnosis.- 6 Orbital Inflammations Secondary to Paranasal Sinus Disease and Their Differential Diagnoses.- Orbital Complications of Bacterial Sinusitis.- 7 Clinically and Histologically Proven Inflammatory Orbital Diseases and Their Differential Diagnoses - Selected on Didactic Grounds.- 8 Similar CT Findings in Etiologically Different Disease Entities.- Enlargement of Individual Extraocular Muscles.- Diffuse Orbital Infiltration.- Unilateral Enlargement of the Cavernous Sinus.- 9 Characteristic CT Patterns that Allow Diagnosis with a High Degree of Safety.