[Lofgren syndrome revealed by eyelid tumor].
BACKGROUND
The Lofgren syndrom is a particular variety of sarcoidose. The ocular attack is dominated in this syndrome by anterior uveitis. More rarely the eyelids and the orbitary structures are attached.


OBJECTIVE
In this work, we report a Lofgren syndrome case revealed by eyelid tumor.


METHODS
It is about 42 year-old patient who consults for a right inferior eye-lid tumefaction developped for 2 months. The diagnosis of Lofgren syndrome was evoqued because of the association of fever, arthritis, erythema nodosum, tuberculin anergia, hypercalcinuria and mediastinal adenopathy at thoracic scan-tomography. The diagnosis was then confirmed by biopsy of palpebral tumor which showed multiple epithelioid and gigantocellular granuloma without caseous necrosis.


CONCLUSIONS
The Lofgren syndrome is a multivisceral chronic affection. The eye and its annexes constitute frequent cibles of this affection for which they react by a diverse and rich symptomalogy and which can be presented by eye-lid tumors with orbital extension.
Hmaied
Wassim
W
Service d'Ophtalmologie, Hôpital des F.S.I la Morsa.
Baccouri
Raoudha
R
Zbiba
Walid
W
Kamoun
Heykel
H
Bouhaouala
M Habib
MH
El Fekih
Lamia
L
D000328:Adult; D005141:Eyelid Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000150:complications*; D013577:Syndrome