Report of Cases. Case 1. A 9-yearold white girl underwent excision of a small, rapidly growing, black pigmented lesion of the inferior palpebral conjunctiva and the adjacent margin of the right lower eyelid. The original histopathologic diagnosis was an active junctional nevus of the conjunctiva and eyelid margin. The lesion recurred 3 years later and was excised by a dermatologist who did not ...

A 74-year-old man was examined for a mass in the left upper eyelid. It was inconspicuous in inspection. There was no visual restriction, however a feeling of friction on the superior orbit during lid movement. Through eyelid crease lid incision, a solitary lesion appeared in the preaponeurotic space that orginated from the upper tarsal plate. Excisional biopsy revealed adipose proliferation wit...

BACKGROUND Ocular sebaceous carcinoma is an uncommon, aggressive ocular neoplasm with potential for regional and distant metastasis. CASE PRESENTATION A 77-year-old woman was found to have a solitary pulmonary lesion 6 years after the initial treatment of sebaceous carcinoma of the eyelid. Video-assisted lung wedge resection of an undetermined pulmonary nodule was carried out successfully. Mi...

PURPOSE The purpose of this report is to demonstrate a rare clinical manifestation of apraxia eyelid opening related to a basal ganglia lesion. CASE REPORT In this study, we report a 91-year-old woman suffering from difficulty in eyelid opening after being treated for myocardial ischemia with dual antiplatelet medications. She could open her eyelid with fingers touching her forehead. Brain co...

We present the case of a full-term girl born to nonconsanguineous parents. Physical examination revealed a large (14 x 6 centimeters) hairless lesion on the right frontalparietal scalp (Fig.1), multiple nodular lesions of the right upper eyelid and eyebrow, and a reddish bulbar conjunctival lesion on the right eye consistent with choriocystoma (Fig.2). A CT scan of the brain showed cranial asym...

Ultrasound imaging is not traditionally employed to evaluate eyelid lesions. Nevertheless, this technology permits the delineation of static and dynamic changes and could be useful in evaluating eyelid masses by providing additional information to clinicians for optimal surgical planning, especially in facilities where a computed tomography (CT) scan is not readily available. A 63-year-old woma...

A newborn infant presenting with a divided congenital melanocytic naevus of the eyelid is described. Because of the severe disfigurement, risk of later malignant change in the lesion, and the possibility of deprivation amblyopia, early surgical treatment is recommended for all medium and large congenital melanocytic naevi of the eyelid. Surgery in the first few months of life gives the best cos...

CASE REPORT A 32-year-old man developed a lesion, over a period of 1 year, at the margin of the right upper eyelid. The presumed diagnosis was a pyogenic granuloma. An excision biopsy was performed and the histopathologic diagnosis was a pilomatrixoma. DISCUSSION Eyelid pilomatrixoma is commonly misdiagnosed preoperatively and is extremely rare in middle-aged patients.

A 32-year-old patient who was 17 weeks of pregnant referred to our hospital due to a lesion on the eyelid and swelling on her face. Patient's history revealed that she helped her husband for slaughtering of a sick animal and contacted with the meat. A scabby lesion was detected on the inferior eyelid with hyperaemia around, central necrotic appearance and swelling. The diagnosis of anthrax was ...

Histological sections from 24 patients with malignant melanoma of the eyelid skin were studied and correlated with clinical follow-up for an average of 8.6 years. There was an average post-treatment follow-up of 7.4 years with a cure rate of 78% in the superficial spreading group. The average follow-up in the nodular melanoma group was 9.4 years with a cure rate of 75%. Nodular melanoma patient...