Spider bites are not very common, especially in the Mediterranean area, and those affecting the ocular-palpebral region involving reconstructive surgery are particularly rare. In May 2010, the case of a Caucasian 24-year-old female patient was brought to the attention of the Dermatology Department, University of Cagliari, Italy. The patient reported she woke up feeling an intense pain with itch...

An intact male, six-month-old Hanwoo bull calf (native Korean beef breed) was presented to the Animal Medical Centre, Chonbuk National University because the owner had noticed a conjunctival and corneal abnormality in the left eye (OS). On ophthalmic examination, a small, elevated and skin-like mass lesion, containing hair was found on the ventronasal cornea and the conjunctiva of the third eye...

INTRODUCTION Tumour and tumour-like lesions of the eyelids are more common in dogs than cats. In the feline, malignant tumours outnumber benign types, with eyelid neoplasms essentially arising from the haired skin. Based on 1 study, squamous cell carcinomas, fibrosarcomas and adenocarcinomas constitute 73.5 % of all feline eyelid tumours. Apocrine hidrocystomas in cats are rare, solitary and mo...

Purpose: To find out frequency of eyelid lesions at a tertiary care hospital. Study Design: Descriptive observational Place and Duration Study: Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre Karachi, from March 2013 to December 2018. Methods: Records patients operated for were reviewed. Tumors arising eyelids, may or not be extending other tissues included in study. Data age, gender, type lesion, site Hist...

Myofibroma is a neoplasia of myofibroblasts that can be solitary or multiple and it is found most commonly in the head & neck region including scalp, forehead, parotid region and oral cavity. In the eyelid it is rarely reported. It has a benign course in the solitary form and fatal in its multiple form. A 4 month male infant referred to Farabi hospital -the referral center for eye diseases- wit...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Palisaded encapsulated neuroma of the skin (PEN) is an uncommon benign neural tumour that occurs on the head and neck, including the eyelid, but is unfamiliar to many ophthalmic clinicians. For the first time in the ophthalmic literature, the clinical and histopathological features of two patients with PEN of the eyelid are described. METHODS Two cases of PEN were identified i...

BACKGROUND Here we report three cases of conjunctival lymphoma that were initially unnotified or misdiagnosed as other ocular diseases because of the small tumor size, peripheral tumor location (the tumor was hidden in the fornix), and nonspecific symptoms. METHODS Three patients diagnosed with conjunctivitis or nasolacrimal duct obstruction were referred to our clinic because they were unres...

OBJECTIVE To determine the primary sites, clinical features, treatment, and outcome of 20 patients with cancer metastatic to the eyelids. METHODS Retrospective review of medical records. RESULTS The primary tumors included skin melanoma (4 [20%]), uveal melanoma (4 [20%]), breast carcinoma and conjunctival melanoma (3 [15%] each), renal cell carcinoma (2 [10%]), and medullary thyroid carcin...

Sebaceous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the second most common eyelid malignancy among Caucasians, next to Basal cell carcinoma (BCC). It is an uncommon malignant neoplasm, and there are several reports describing the multiple clinical and histopathological presentations of SCC. Given its rarity, diagnosing SCC remains a challenge for ophthalmologists and pathologists, especially when conducting inci...

PURPOSE To highlight the recognition and diagnosis of Muir-Torre syndrome (MTS) in patients with sebaceous tumors of the eyelid/conjunctiva and to determine the role of immunohistochemical markers as a screening test in patients with Muir-Torre syndrome. DESIGN Single interventional case report. METHODS The clinical and family history was reviewed from the records of a 41-year-old man who h...