title: Primary radiation therapy for meibomian gland carcinoma.
abstract: Three patients with Meibomian gland carcinoma were treated initially with irradiation. This therapy was palliative in one case that eventually required orbital exenteration because of recurrent disease. A second patient was clinically tumor-free ten months after treatment when he died of a myocardial infarction. The third patient has shown no evidence of recurrent disease in the 25 months since treatment.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005142:Eyelid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008537:Meibomian Glands; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local