Eccrine sweat gland tumor of clear cell origin involving the eyelids

✍ Scribed by Yale Rosen; Byunghoon Kim; Valentin A. Yermakov

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1975
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 903 KB
• Volume: 36
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(197509)36:3<1034::aid-cncr2820360329>3.0.co;2-g

✦ Synopsis

A 47-year-old patient with an unusual tumor involving the right upper a n d lower eyelids has been followed for almost 6 years. T h e tumor has remained localized to the eyelids a n d has recurred locally following attempts at complete o r partial excision. The morphological features of the tumor as seen by ordinary light microscopic methods were puzzling, a n d resulted i n a variety of pathologic diagnoses. Light microscopic examination of plastic-embedded semithin sections, a n d electron microscopic examination indicate that this is a hitherto undescribed eccrine sweat gland tumor of clear cell origin. Its infiltrative growth pattern a n d tendency to local recurrence suggests that it may be a low-grade malignant neoplasm.