|
KMID : 0360220100510060885
|
|
Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society
2010 Volume.51 No. 6 p.885 ~ p.889
|
|
|
Primary Conjunctival Epithelial Cyst in the Orbit
|
|
Yi Chan-Hui
Sung Mi-Sun
Kim Hyoung-Gyun
Woo Kyung-In
Kim Yoon-Duck
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
Purpose: To report a case of a primary conjunctival epithelial cyst in the orbit.
Case Summary: A 60-year-old woman was referred for evaluation of proptosis of the left eye, which had developed about 2 years earlier. Upon initial examination, a movable mass was palpated in the medial aspect of the left orbit. Magnetic resonance imaging of the orbit showed a 2.5 cm-sized, ovoid, cystic mass located between the left eyeball and the medial wall of the orbit. Excisional biopsy of the orbital mass was performed. The orbital mass was a well-circumscribed cystic lesion, adherent to the medial rectus muscle. Histological examination revealed that the cyst was lined with multiple layers of cuboidal epithelium with goblet cells. A diagnosis of primary conjunctival cyst was made.
Conclusions: The possibility of primary conjunctival cyst should be considered in the differential diagnosis for an orbital cystic mass.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Conjunctival epithelial cyst, Orbit
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
  
|