title: Intraocular lacrimal gland choristoma diagnosed by fine-needle aspiration biopsy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe an intraocular lacrimal gland choristoma confirmed with fine-needle aspiration biopsy in a child.
  
  
  METHODS
  Case report.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A 6-year-old Asian girl developed a pink, vascularized, cerebriform mass with marked corectopia in the inferonasal iris of the left eye. The differential diagnosis included juvenile xanthogranuloma, nevus, melanoma, medulloepithelioma, lacrimal gland choristoma, and atypical retinoblastoma. Fluorescein angiography was suggestive of a noninflammatory, nonleaking solid mass. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy showed benign epithelial cells consistent with lacrimal tissue.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Lacrimal gland choristoma shows notable clinical features and fine-needle aspiration biopsy can be confirmatory.
authors.affiliation: Oncology Service, Wills Eye Hospital, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.
authors.forename: Elie G
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Kobrin
authors.forename: Carol L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Shields
authors.forename: Carl J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Danzig
authors.forename: Hormoz
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ehya
authors.forename: Robert A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: King
authors.forename: Jerry A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Shields
mesh_terms: D044963:Biopsy, Fine-Needle; D002648:Child; D015862:Choroid Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D006801:Humans; D007499:Iris Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D007765:Lacrimal Apparatus