title: Multiple eyelid cysts resembling apocrine hidrocystomas in three Persian cats and one Himalayan cat.
abstract: Multiple eyelid cysts were evaluated and treated in four cats. Surgical removal of the cysts was performed in two cats. Histopathologic examination revealed multilocular cystic structures of various size. The cysts were lined by cuboidal to columnar cells with papillary or cystic projections into the cyst lumen. Periodic acid-Schiff-positive, diastase-resistant granules were seen within the apical cytoplasm of many of the cells. The eyelid masses in these cats resembled apocrine hidrocystomas in human beings, both clinically and on histopathologic examination.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chaitman
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: van der Woerdt
authors.forename: T E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Bartick
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002371:Cat Diseases / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002415:Cats; D003560:Cysts / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005141:Eyelid Diseases / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary*; D005260:Female; D018251:Hidrocystoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary*; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008297:Male; D010503:Periodic Acid-Schiff Reaction / Q000662:veterinary; D013544:Sweat Gland Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary*