Abstract
Purpose
To report a case of verrucous carcinoma (VC) that presented as an eyelid mass on the right eye.
Case Report
A 66-year-old man developed a slow-growing eyelid lesion on the lateral can-thus of the right eye. The tumor was firm, well-defined, sessile, acuminate, and exuded foul-smelling fluid.
Results
Excisional biopsy revealed a VC. The patient remains asymptomatic.
Conclusions
VCs are extremely rare eyelid tumors. This clinicopathological entity is a low-grade variant of squamous cell carcinoma that occurs mainly in the intraoral, genitogluteal, and plantar areas. A role of human papillomavirus (HPV) in these tumors has been recently identified. VCs characteristically show locally aggresive growth. This is the second case reported in the literature on the eyelid. VC should be considered in the differential diagnosis of eyelid tumors.
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