Neurothekeoma of the eyelid: A case report

The purpose of this article is to describe a rare benign tumor of nerve sheath origin arising from the eyelid in an elderly male. Local excision was done and histopathological examination revealed a neurothekeoma. Six months later the patient was doing well with no recurrence. The case was unique in...

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Autores principales: Mathew, Sunu, Nandeesh, B N, Vasu, Usha, Michael, Shon George
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2636171/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18579999
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description The purpose of this article is to describe a rare benign tumor of nerve sheath origin arising from the eyelid in an elderly male. Local excision was done and histopathological examination revealed a neurothekeoma. Six months later the patient was doing well with no recurrence. The case was unique in that the patient was an elderly male while neurothekeoma is commonly seen on the face of young adults, especially females.
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spelling pubmed-26361712009-02-10 Neurothekeoma of the eyelid: A case report Mathew, Sunu Nandeesh, B N Vasu, Usha Michael, Shon George Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communication The purpose of this article is to describe a rare benign tumor of nerve sheath origin arising from the eyelid in an elderly male. Local excision was done and histopathological examination revealed a neurothekeoma. Six months later the patient was doing well with no recurrence. The case was unique in that the patient was an elderly male while neurothekeoma is commonly seen on the face of young adults, especially females. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2636171/ /pubmed/18579999 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Brief Communication
Mathew, Sunu
Nandeesh, B N
Vasu, Usha
Michael, Shon George
Neurothekeoma of the eyelid: A case report
title Neurothekeoma of the eyelid: A case report
title_full Neurothekeoma of the eyelid: A case report
title_fullStr Neurothekeoma of the eyelid: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Neurothekeoma of the eyelid: A case report
title_short Neurothekeoma of the eyelid: A case report
title_sort neurothekeoma of the eyelid: a case report
topic Brief Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2636171/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18579999
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