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Case Reports
. 1977 Dec;84(6):794-7.
doi: 10.1016/0002-9394(77)90498-6.

Fibrous histiocytoma of the tarsus

F A Jakobiec, A G DeVoe, J Boyd
Case Reports

Fibrous histiocytoma of the tarsus

F A Jakobiec et al. Am J Ophthalmol. 1977 Dec.

Abstract

A 21-year-old white man had an asymptomatic eyelid mass that had slowly enlarged for one year. On clinical examination the lesion was well circumscribed; it appeared subconjunctivally but provoked no conjunctival inflammation, and had a consistency suggestive of cartilage. Microscopic examination showed it was matted and composed of elongated fibro-histiocytes and an evenly distributed population of xanthoma cells and Touton giant cells. The lesion was easily removed by local excision because of a pseudocapsule formed by remnants of the tarsus; there has been no recurrence during a 12-month follow-up.

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