Three oncocytomas in a short space of time
| Autor: | Geraldine J O'Dowd, Charles J M Diaper, Lorna M Cottrell, Francis Carbonaro |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Asymptomatic Mass Adenoma Conjunctival Neoplasms Eyelid Neoplasms urologic and male genital diseases Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Cystic lesion Rare Diseases Adenoma Oxyphilic Humans Medicine Oncocytoma Letters Aged 80 and over rhinorrhea business.industry Incidence medicine.disease Sensory Systems Lacrimal sac Surgery Ophthalmology medicine.anatomical_structure Female Surgical excision Radiology medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | British Journal of Ophthalmology. 91:1718-1719 |
| ISSN: | 0007-1161 |
| Popis: | Oncocytomas of the caruncle are rare tumours, found in 3–8% of caruncle excision biopsies.1 They occur most commonly in elderly women. Clinically, these tumours tend to present as a slow-growing, asymptomatic mass that is often tan red in colour.2 Treatment is by complete surgical excision and recurrence is unusual, although very rare malignant oncocytomas occurring in the ocular adnexae have been reported,3 and there has been a case of persistent rhinorrhea caused by an oncocytoma occurring in the lacrimal sac with extension into the nasolacrimal duct.4 A 38-year-old woman presented with a two-year history of a slowly enlarging cystic lesion of … |
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