Pattern of Orbito-ocular Tumours in Nigeria: a systematic review.
Nearly 60% of orbito-ocular tumours reported in Nigeria were malignant.
Pattern of Orbito-ocular Tumours in Nigeria: a systematic review.
Orbito-ocular tumours are stereotypical, monotonous growths of the orbit, eyeball, and extra-orbital tissues.
To describe the patterns of these tumors in Nigeria.
A systematic literature search was conducted on Google Scholar and PubMed using the following keywords: pattern, orbit tumour, ocular tumour, Nigeria.
A total of two thousand six hundred and forty-three (2643) patients with orbito-ocular tumors was reported to have been published in Nigerian articles over the past five decades, the age range of the reported cases was 1 month-93 years with a male preponderance.
Retinoblastoma and squamous cell carcinoma were the most common tumours in children and adults respectively.
Squamous cell papilloma had the highest distribution among the benign category.
The eyeball and conjunctiva were the most common anatomical location of orbito-ocular tumors.
There were more malignant than benign tumours from this review.
The most common malignant tumours were retinoblastoma (in children) and conjunctival squamous cell carcinoma (in adults) while squamous papilloma was the most common benign tumour.
Chemotherapy with or without surgeries was the most common intervention with varied treatment outcomes due to the nature and stage of tumour, adherence to treatment, and follow-up plan.