Tumores palpebrales benignos derivados de los folículos pilosos en adultos

  1. E Mencía Gutiérrez
  2. E Gutiérrez Díaz
  3. JR Ricoy
  4. I Gómez Ledesma
  5. J Monescillo
  6. JP García Torre
Journal:
Archivos de la Sociedad Española de Oftalmologia

ISSN: 0365-6691

Year of publication: 2002

Volume: 77

Issue: 11

Pages: 605-610

Type: Article

DOI: 10.4321/S0365-66912002001100004 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

Purpose: Benign eyelid neoplasms derived from hair follicles are frequently misdiagnosed, including pilomatricoma, trichoepithelioma, trichilemmoma, trichoblastoma and inverted follicular keratosis. Methods: We reviewed 17 tumors seen in the last 9 years, between 1992 and 2002. Excisional biopsy constituted the treatment in all cases. Results: The mean age was 44.5 years (range 13-80 years). Ten were women and 7 men. Pilomatricoma and trichoepithelioma accounted for 76.5% of all neoplasms. All trichoepitheliomas were found as solitary tumors and no patient had a history of familial trichoepithelioma. The remaining neoplasms (23.5%) were trichilemmomas, trichoblastoma and inverted follicular keratosis. No patient recurred locally and there were no malignant transformations after a mean follow-up of 3.1 years. The most frequent hair follicle neoplasms in our series was pilomatricoma (9 cases). Conclusions: Benign hair follicle neoplasms are rare in the eyelid. Most can simulate a basal cell carcinoma when evaluation is based on clinical evidence alone, and only the pilomatricoma may resemble a benign neoplasm. Thereby they must be excised with free surgical margins. All excised eyelid lesions should be sumitted for histopathologic examination because it is not possible to obtain 100% accuracy in diagnosing eyelid tumors.

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