A solitary fibrofolliculoma in the eyelid.
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.
Chang
June-Kyu
JK
Department of Ophthalmology, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, Korea.
Lee
Dong-Cho
DC
Chang
Moo-Hwan
MH
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