Abstract

RAMIREZ GARCIA, Lázara Kenia et al. Clinical and pathological characterization of palpebral malignant tumors. Rev Cubana Oftalmol [online]. 2014, vol.27, n.1, pp.79-90. ISSN 0864-2176.

Objectives: to describe the clinicopathological features of malignant eyelid. Method: A descriptive, retrospective study of patients with histopathologic diagnosis of basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell and adenocarcinoma of sebaceous glands, assisted in the service of oculoplasty the Cuban Institute of Ophthalmology January 2005 to December 2010. It was included 109 patients; we analyzed age, sex, skin color, clinical symptoms, anatomic location, degree of cell differentiation and annual basis. Results: 60 to 79 years occurred in 50,5 %. It was 47,7 % were male and female 52,3 %. The basal cell carcinoma was present in 68,8 %, squamous cell carcinoma in 19,3 % and adenocarcinoma of sebaceous glands in (11,9 %. White skin was 88 %. Nodular basal cell carcinoma in 53,3 %, the nodule-ulcerative in 33,3 %. In the lower eyelid basal cell carcinoma showed a 69,3 % and 66,7 % epidermoid. The 44,1 % of the histopathological diagnoses were moderately differentiated. Showed 21 cases of basal cell carcinoma in 2009, 7 squamous cell carcinoma in 2007 and an equal number of cases of adenocarcinoma of sebaceous glands in 2010. Conclusions: Over half of the patients were elderly, female and white, showed all the clinical forms predominated in the lower eyelid basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell, most of the cases showed degree of cell differentiation moderate annual rate showed dissimilar behavior in the period under study with more cases in 2009.

Keywords : eyelid malignancies; basal cell carcinoma; squamous cell carcinoma; adenocarcinoma of sebaceous glands.

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