What does an orbital dermoid look like?
An orbital dermoid presents as an egg-shaped mass under the skin adjacent to the bones of the eye socket. The mass is soft. The skin overlying the mass is normal in appearance. Dermoids can remodel the bone adjacent to them so that they often sit in a depression in the bone. Sometimes dermoids are dumbbell-shaped with one half of the mass on the outer part of the rim of the eye socket and the other part in the inside of the rim of the eye socket. Dermoids are cysts and are typically filled with a greasy material that is yellow in color.
