[Orbital involvement as the first manifestation of Hand-Schuller-Christian disease. A case report].

UNLABELLED: PURPOSE/MATERIAL AND METHOD: To describe the clinical case of a 20-month-old boy with Hand-Schuller-Christian disease. Exophthalmos was the only systemic manifestation evident over a period of at least 6 weeks, but later the triad of exophthalmos with multiple lytic lesions of the skull and diabetes insipidus were present.

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Histiocytosis X should be considered in the differential diagnosis of orbital tumors in children.