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A patient with eyelid and anterior orbital myeloproliferative hypereosinophilic syndrome
Acta OphthalmologicaPeer ReviewedDE KEIZER RJW +32012Journals
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

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