Primary typical carcinoid tumor of the eyelid.
A 70-year-old woman presented with a slow-growing right lower eyelid lesion. Histopathologic and immunohistochemical evaluation of an excisional biopsy revealed a neuroendocrine neoplasm, consistent with a typical carcinoid tumor. Systemic investigation for occult visceral primary tumor was negative. Re-excision of the lesion for free surgical margins was performed. Eight months later, the patient remains well with no evidence of other primary malignancy or metastatic disease.
Kropinak
Mark
M
Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and daggerOphthalmology, The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, New York, NY10003, USA.
Sims
Leslie
L
Iacob
Codrin
C
McCormick
Steven A
SA
Milman
Tatyana
T
D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D002276:Carcinoid Tumor / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005142:Eyelid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005143:Eyelids / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed