title: A solitary fibrofolliculoma in the eyelid.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report the first case of a solitary eyelid fibrofolliculoma and to review the literature.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 37-year-old female patient visited the outpatient department with a lesion in the right upper lid that had been growing steadily for a year. The patient had visited the local clinic, and under the diagnosis of chalazion had received incision and curettage twice, but the lesion had recurred.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The 5x5 mm lesion was located near the upper lid margin. It was a red, hemispheric, smooth nodule, relatively solid to palpation and not painful. Excision and biopsy were performed, and through a histological exam, the diagnosis of fibrofolliculoma was later confirmed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Solitary fibrofolliculoma is rare, and to the authors' knowledge, a lesion arising in the eyelid has not yet been reported. Fibrofolliculoma should be included in the differential diagnosis when a localized mass lesion arising in the eyelid is encountered.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, Korea.
authors.forename: June-Kyu
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Dong-Cho
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Moo-Hwan
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Chang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017043:Chalazion / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005142:Eyelid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005350:Fibroma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D013508:Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures