title: Fibrous histiocytoma of the corneoscleral limbus and conjunctiva.
abstract: An 11-year-old boy and a 28-year-old woman each had a painless, slowly enlarging, elevated, yellow lesion of the inferior corneoscleral limbus and adjacent cornea and conjunctiva of the left eye. Histopathologic examination of both lesions disclosed involvement of the conjunctival substantia propria and the adjacent limbal and peripheral corneal stroma by a nonencapsulated, dense infiltrate composed of elongated fibrocytic cells, plump histiocytic cells occasionally with a vacuolated cytoplasm, some multinucleated giant cells, and scattered lymphocytes. The diagnosis in each case was fibrous histiocytoma. Both patients were otherwise in good health with no dermatologic, systemic, or other ocular abnormalities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, McGill University, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lahoud
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Brownstein
authors.forename: M Y
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Laflamme
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003230:Conjunctival Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D003316:Corneal Diseases / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005134:Eye Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D018219:Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015422:Scleral Diseases / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery