Lumbosacral chordoma metastatic to the eyelid.
The authors report a patient treated with radiation therapy for a lumbosacral chordoma. The first and only evidence of metastatic disease was an eyelid cyst. This case is unusual for several reasons. First, eyelid metastases are rare; they are much more uncommon than metastases to the uvea or orbit. Second, metastatic tumors to the eyelid are usually manifestations of widespread disease and seldom occur as a solitary focus of dissemination. Third, the clinical presentation of our patient's lesion as an eyelid cyst is uncommon for a metastasis to the eyelid. Finally, to the best of our knowledge, all previously reported tumors metastatic to the eyelid have been carcinomas; this is the first report of a metastatic soft-tissue tumor to the eyelid.
Malone
T J
TJ
Oculoplastic, Orbital and Oncology Service, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City 52242.
Folberg
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Nerad
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D000368:Aged; D002817:Chordoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D003560:Cysts / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005141:Eyelid Diseases / Q000473:pathology; D005142:Eyelid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*