title: [Sclerokeratitis and invasive conjunctival squamous cell carcinoma].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe one case of invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the conjunctiva in a 74-year-old woman, who two years previously had presented with a lesion which appeared to be an anterior nodular scleritis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  An anterior nodular scleritis, which did not respond to therapy, preceded the development of a squamous cell carcinoma of the conjunctiva adjacent to it. In our patient, the conjunctival squamous cell carcinoma could have masqueraded as a scleritis, delaying the correct diagnosis and allowing orbital spread of the tumor. A diagnosis of neoplasia must be considered when a scleritis shows an atypical appearance or does not respond to the usual therapy.
authors: Hospital General de Móstoles, Madrid, España. artesanc@yahoo.com
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Arteaga-Sánchez
authors: N
authors: N
authors: Toledano-Fernández
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Díaz-Valle
authors: M J
authors: MJ
authors: Fernández-Aceñero
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Hijós-Gastón
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D003230:Conjunctival Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007634:Keratitis / Q000150:complications*; D007765:Lacrimal Apparatus / Q000473:pathology; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles / Q000473:pathology; D017233:Orbit Evisceration; D015423:Scleritis / Q000150:complications*