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Abstract
Purpose
To present a rare case of Muir-Torre syndrome characterized by the association of sebaceous skin tumors and systemic malignancies.
Case summary
A 65-year-old female visited our clinic with an irregular nodular mass of the right lower eyelid, which developed 1 year earlier. An excisional biopsy and lower lid reconstruction with Tenzel's semicircular rotational flap was performed under local anesthesia. Histopathologic examination showed well-differentiated sebaceous cells, consistent with sebaceous adenoma. The patient had undergone total abdominal hysterectomy and lower anterior resection due to endo-metrial cancer and sigmoid colon cancer 5 years before, and nephroureterectomy due to papillary urothelial carcinoma 3 years before. Based on the history of systemic malignancy and sebaceous skin cancer, a diagnosis of Muir-Torre syndrome was made.
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Figure 1.
Clinical photograph showing an irregular nodular mass in the lower tarsal conjunctiva of the right eye.
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