Abstract
A clinicopathologic study of 31 squamous cell carcinomas of the eyelid was conducted. The tumor was encountered less frequently than in previous reports, due largely to the refinement of the pathologic diagnosis. Eighteen cases originally diagnosed as squamous cell carcinoma were eliminated because the diagnoses were changed to sebaceous gland carcinoma (10), basal cell carcinoma (4), seborrheic keratosis (2), inverted follicular keratosis (1), and papillama (1). One of our 31 patients experienced tumor metastasis and tumor-related mortality. Despite the low incidence of metastasis, management recommendations include complete surgical excision using intraoperative frozen-section monitoring of the surgical margins.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 538-541 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Ophthalmology |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1987 |
Keywords
- basal cell carcinoma
- frozen-section monitoring
- sebaceous gland carcinoma
- squamous cell carcinoma of eyelids
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Ophthalmology