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Case Reports
. 2017 Oct 18;23(4):27-29.
doi: 10.5693/djo.03.2017.07.001. eCollection 2017.

A 60-year-old woman with an asymptomatic left lacrimal gland mass found incidentally

Sudip D Thakar  1 , Oded Sagiv  1 , Michael T Tetzlaff  2   3 , Adel El-Naggar  2 , J Matthew Debnam  4 , Thomas J Kandl  1 , Bita Esmaeli  1
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A 60-year-old woman with an asymptomatic left lacrimal gland mass found incidentally

Sudip D Thakar et al. Digit J Ophthalmol. .
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Figure 1
Figure 1
A, T1-weighted post-contrast coronal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrating a well, circumscribed homogeneous mass in the left superolateral orbit. B, T2-weighted precontrast axial MRI demonstrating heterogeneous signal consistent for schwannoma.
Figure 2
Figure 2
A, Gross surgical specimen showing the appearance of the lacrimal gland mass. B, Gross specimen in cross section.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Lacrimal gland schwannoma. A, Scanning magnification reveals an encapsulated spindle cell tumor with areas of hyper- and hypo-cellularity adjacent to glandular tissue (hematoxylin-eosin [H&E] original magnification ×40). B, Spindle cell tumor comprised of areas of relative hypercellular Antoni A areas (H&E ×200). C, with Verocay body formation (arrowheads; H&E ×200). D, Antoni B area consisting of loose arrangement of spindle cells in a myxoid background with hyalinized thick-walled vessels (arrowheads; H&E ×200).
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