title: [Large basal cell carcinoma of the external palpebral angle].
abstract: A clinicopathologic case of an 89-year-old female patient with a single cutaneous tumor at the outer part of the outer left eyelids is reported. It was a pink nodular mass, well circumscribed, exophytic and with thin vessels. After surgical removal, histopathology showed that the tumor was a typical basal cell carcinoma, with many cystic-like cavities. Basal cell carcinomas can be commonly observed on the eyelids and surgical excision of these small size lesions is an easy way to perform a curative treatment. As often in other tumors, early diagnosis is probably the easiest way to improve the prognosis.
authors.affiliation: Service d'Ophtalmologie, Hôtel Dieu, 1, place du parvis Notre-Dame, F-75181 Paris.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: D'Hermies
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Morel
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.forename: F B
authors.initials: FB
authors.lastname: Cohen
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Halhal
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Vu
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Elmaleh
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Renard
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002280:Basal Cell Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology*; D005142:Eyelid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans