Eccrine porocarcinoma of the upper eyelid.
A 75-year-old Caucasian man presented with foreign-body-type irritation of the left eye. Physical examination revealed a 12 x 10-mm nodule in his left upper eyelid, which reportedly had been present unchanged for more than 40 years. No other ophthalmological abnormalities were present. Incisional biopsy of the lesion revealed a malignant tumour that was thought to possibly represent a sebaceous carcinoma. However, a subsequent wide surgical excision showed that the tumour was an eccrine porocarcinoma, a rare sweat gland adenocarcinoma arising from the acrosyringium.
Kim
Youngjin
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Department of Dermatology, Level 5 Medical Centre, Concord Hospital, Concord Road, New South Wales, Australia. kimabel@hanmail.net
Scolyer
Richard A
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Chia
Ee-Munn
EM
Steven
David
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Ghabrial
Raf
R
D000368:Aged; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D004439:Eccrine Glands / Q000473:pathology*; D005141:Eyelid Diseases / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017233:Orbit Evisceration; D013544:Sweat Gland Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome