Erythematoid Benign Epithelioma

Benign calcifying epithelioma.

A BENIGN calcifying epithelioma is a subcutaneous tumour, first described by Malherbe and Chenantais (1880), who called it l'epitheliome calcifie des glandes sebacees. Malherbe (1881, 1905) added more details, but only four examples of such tumours have been reported in the ophthalmic literature (Ashton, 1951; Kornblueth and Liban, 1955). Histological examination of material from the Radcliffe ...

Benign epithelioma of the iris. A clinico-pathological case report.

Both eyes were free of inflammation and the irides were of the blue type with scattered honey-coloured freckles. The right eye showed a pale yellow spherical mass approximately 2 mm. in diameter within the iris stroma almost midway between the pupil margin and the root of the riris in the upper temporal sector (Fig. I). Large curly new vessels coursed in the iris stroma from the periphery radia...

Epithelioma Adamantinum

from the Clinical History.--The patient, female, aged thirty years, was admitted to St. Joseph's Hospital. Two years and three months ago she first noticed a small, hard tumor near the first bicuspid tooth on the left side of the lower jaw bone. It grew slowly. In childhood there was nothing unusual about her teeth, which were perfectly regular and even up to the time of her present illness. Ex...

Epithelioma Adenoides Cysticum

mann (Ewing, 1928) contends that since all epithelial tumours arise from the basal cells the term basal-cell carcinoma was not quite suitable. But Krompecher's choice of term may be justified on the ground that basal-cell epithelioma is composed of basal cells which retain their morphological characters throughout their existence, in contrast to the squamous-cell carcinoma in which the basal ce...

Tricho-epithelioma of the Eyelid.