title: [Complications of palpebral epitheliomas: diagnostic, therapeutic, and prognostic implications].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To illustrate two cases of palpebral tumors that determined local complications, with consequences on the preoperative diagnosis and the surgical treatment (case 1) and on the functional prognosis of the eye (case 2).
  
  
  METHODS
  The history and evolution of the cases, the surgical techniques, the histopathological reports and the anatomical and functional results are described and analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In case 1, the extension of the tumor led to a considerable tissular defect that claimed for a long and hard surgery for the anatomical and functional repair of the region. In case 2, the vegetant evolution of the tumor determined the irritation of the cornea and consecutive corneal ulcer that perforated, with the functional loss of the eye.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The two cases are revealing aspects that are less frequent in the ophthalmic practice. They signalize, besides the deffisient adresability of the patient, the problem of the "territorial dispute" over the palpebral surgery between different specialties.
authors.affiliation: Clinica Oftalmologică, Catedra Morfopatologie, UMF Cluj-Napoca.
authors.forename: Simona
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nicoară
authors.forename: Mihaela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mera
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gheban
authors.forename: Lilia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Olaru
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002280:Basal Cell Carcinoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D003320:Corneal Ulcer / Q000209:etiology; D005142:Eyelid Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D016896:Treatment Outcome