Unknown disease

[Roey_kam]

Hello all,
My father is 67 years old, and he is having a problem for a year or so. we have been at approximately 20 doctors and professors and none of them saw this kind of problem(we are not in the US). I hope that i can find maybe even a hint here.
The problem is that he's eyes are popped out a bit and they are red. He is not complaining about any pain, but yes about a minor decrease in the eye sight. After a lot of CT's and other kind of x-rays, we found a few lumps behind the eyes, they are not malignant. Some doctors want to do a surgery but we afraid that this will cause blindness or a serious vision impairment.
Is anyone ever heard before of something like that?

[JohnHaganMD]

Yes, its a common problem. It's called "Exophthalmos", the most common cause by far is Grave's Disease associated with hyperthyroidism. Next most common are "orbital pseudo-tumor" and lymphoma.

Because there are a number of causes and you do not state what the cause it it is not possible to offer you advice on surgery.   There are also different types of surgery: biopsy, lid retractor recessions, orbital decompression.

JCH MD