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A patient with eyelid and anterior orbital myeloproliferative hypereosinophilic syndrome
Author(s) -
DE KEIZER RJW,
AL SABAI N,
BAL TA,
DE GROOT V
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
acta ophthalmologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.534
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1755-3768
pISSN - 1755-375X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2012.3686.x
Subject(s) - medicine , eyelid , dermatology , chalazion (fungus) , pathological , hypereosinophilic syndrome , orbit (dynamics) , pathology , surgery , eosinophilia , engineering , aerospace engineering
Purpose the aim of the study is to evaluate the clinical‐ and histopathological discrepancy of the inflamed eyelid/anterior orbital mass features Methods case report and literature review Results the clinical picture revealed an erythemaous eyelid‐skin inflamed mass without effect on local and general antibiotic treatments . The histopathological “diagnoses was made as “chalazion material”. However the mass was superior located from the tarsus pre‐ and intraseptal with a lot of eosinophilic cell in the pathological material; where the patient already was known with a pulmonal myoblastic hypereosinophilic disease and treated with hydrea with the extra feature of a red face Conclusion knowledge of the systemic disease of a patient and the precise location of a pathologic ophthalmic process is important to made the definitive diagnosis. In difficult processes it is always necessary that pathologist and ophthalmologist consulted each other and made together the end conclusion