title: Conjunctival myxoma, Zollinger-Ellison syndrome and abnormal thickening of the inter-atrial septum: a case report and review of the literature.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report a 36-year-old man with a slowly growing painless bulbar conjunctival mass.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Following excision of the lesion, histological examination was performed and a diagnosis of myxoma was made. A cardiac echogram showed thickening of the interatrial septum. Seventeen years previously he had had Zollinger Ellison syndrome due to gastrinoma of the pancreas which was treated by surgical removal. A review of the literature shows ocular myxomas may be associated with endocrine abnormalities such as Cushing's syndrome, acromegaly, sexual precocity and cardiac myxoma.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In this case we report a novel association of conjunctival myxoma with Zollinger-Ellison syndrome and inter-atrial septal thickening.
authors.affiliation: Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion, Edinburgh, UK.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ramaesh
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Wharton
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dhillon
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D003230:Conjunctival Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D006346:Heart Septum / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009232:Myxoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D015043:Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome / Q000150:complications*