Abstract
An 18-year-old white man presented with a non-painful yellow raised swelling on the inferior limbus of his right eye. Systemic and ocular examination revealed no other abnormalities. The lesion was dealt with by simple excision, but when it recurred fairly soon it was removed in toto and replaced by a lamellar graft, without recurrence. Histological examination revealed a typical xanthogranuloma. The question is, why should a healthy male with no other manifestations develop a lesion like this on his limbus?
Full text
PDF
Images in this article
Selected References
These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article.
- COGAN D. G., KUWABARA T., PARKE D. Epibulbar nevoxanthoendothelioma. AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1958 May;59(5):717–721. doi: 10.1001/archopht.1958.00940060101012. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Faludi J. E., Kenyon K., Green W. R. Fibrous histiocytoma of the corneoscleral limbus. Am J Ophthalmol. 1975 Oct;80(4):619–624. doi: 10.1016/0002-9394(75)90391-8. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Grayson M., Pieroni D. Solitary xanthoma of the limbus. Br J Ophthalmol. 1970 Aug;54(8):562–564. doi: 10.1136/bjo.54.8.562. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Jakobiec F. A. Fibrous histiocytoma of the corneoscleral limbus. Am J Ophthalmol. 1974 Oct;78(4):700–706. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9394(14)76309-3. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Liebman S. D., Crocker A. C., Geiser C. F. Corneal xanthomas in childhood. Arch Ophthalmol. 1966 Aug;76(2):221–229. doi: 10.1001/archopht.1966.03850010223013. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Litriĉin O. Fibrous histiocytoma of the corneosclera. Arch Ophthalmol. 1983 Mar;101(3):426–428. doi: 10.1001/archopht.1983.01040010426017. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Nordentoft B., Andersen S. R. Juvenile xanthogranuloma of the cornea and conjunctiva. Acta Ophthalmol (Copenh) 1967;45(5):720–726. doi: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.1967.tb06543.x. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Zimmerman L. E. Ocular lesions of juvenile xanthogranuloma. Nevoxanthoedothelioma. Am J Ophthalmol. 1965 Dec;60(6):1011–1035. doi: 10.1016/0002-9394(65)92808-4. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]