DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2016.v04i02.038

Pages: 509-516

Benign eyelid, conjunctival, intraocular and orbital tumors are the most common neoplasm in daily ophthalmology practice. Benign tumors largely predominated over malignant ones, representing about 84% of cases in many series, and the 5 most frequent subtypes of eyelids tumor were squamous cell papilloma (26%), seborrheic keratosis (21%), melanocytic nevus (20%), hidrocystoma (8%), and xanthoma/xanthelasma (6%). Basal cell carcinoma was the most frequent malignant tumor (86%), followed by squamous cell carcinoma (7%) and sebaceous carcinoma (3%). For several tumor subtypes, there was a poor correlation between clinical and histological diagnosis, stressing the numerous pitfalls in the diagnosis of these tumors. Further discussionis needed with reference to previously published data.