EYELID TUMORS RESULTS: OF A HISTOPATHOLOGICAL REVIEW.

PURPOSE: To explore the epidemiologic distribution of eyelid tumors in the capital city of Turkey, Ankara from a histopathological point of view METHODS: Medical records of 1502 patients who had eyelid surgery because of tumoral lesions were retrospectively reviewed. A total of 1541 lesions with histopathologic diagnosis were included. Inflammatory tumoral lesions were excluded. The lesions were categorized into three groups according to the origin of the lesion: epidermal tumors, adnexal tumors and „other‟ tumors including melanocytic tumors, neural tumors, vascular tumors, etc. Main outcome measures: The frequencies of eyelid tumors RESULTS: Of 1541 lesions, 908 lesions were epidermal in origin. Only 23 tumors (1.5%) were malignant, and 6.0% was premalignant lesions such as actinic keratosis and Bowen disease. Twenty-one of 22 malign lesions were basal cell carcinoma. There was only one patient with squamous cell carcinoma and no sebaceous cell carcinoma. Among the benign tumors (92.5%), squamous papilloma was the most frequent lesion (21.8% of all lesions). The other frequent lesions were nevus (17.6%), seborrheic keratosis (17.3%), hydrocystoma (10.6%), xanthelasma (7.6%) and epidermal cyst (7.2%). CONCLUSION: The RESULTS: of this study will be discussed in the light of previous findings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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