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Kim, Kim, Park, Choung, and Khwarg: A Case of Eyelid Steatocystoma
Case Report
Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 2012; 53(7): 1027-1029.

Published online: 13 July 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3341/jkos.2012.53.7.1027

A Case of Eyelid Steatocystoma

Tai Jun Kim, MD1, 2, Namju Kim, MD1, 3, Hyo Jin Park, MD4, Ho-Kyung Choung, MD1, 5, Sang In Khwarg, MD1, 2

1Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

2Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.

3Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea.

4Department of Pathology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea.

5Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul Metropolitan Government-Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.

Address reprint requests to Namju Kim, MD. Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, #82 Gumi-ro 173beon-gil, Bundang-gu, Seongnam 463-707, Korea. Tel: 82-31-787-7376, Fax: 82-31-787-4057, resourceful@hanmail.net

Received 17 January 2012       Accepted 21 May 2012

Copyright © 2012 The Korean Ophthalmological Society

Abstract

Purpose

To report a case of eyelid steatocystoma.

Case summary

A 65-year-old woman presented with a mass around the punctum in the right lower eyelid margin, which developed several years earlier. The mass was a light yellowish cystic nodule and there were no other ocular abnormalities. Under local anesthesia, the mass was completely excised. Histopathologic examination showed a cyst surrounded by stratified squamous epithelium and a sebaceous duct which entered the hair follicle, compatible with the diagnosis of steatocystoma.

Conclusions

Steatocystoma should be considered as a differential diagnosis of a solitary cystic eyelid tumor.

Keywords: Eyelid tumor, Steatocystoma

Figures and Tables

Figure 1
Light yellowish cystic nodule near the punctum in the right lower eyelid.
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Figure 2
(A) Cystic mass lined by stratified squamous epithelium (arrow) and contained sebaceous gland in the cyst wall (arrowhead) (H&E, ×40). (B) Sebaceous duct connected to the epithelium which is differentiating to the hair follicle (asterisk) is found in the cyst wall (H&E, ×400).
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