Eyelid tumors anmd renal transplantation
W. B. Stewart, D. H. Nicholson, G. Hamilton, R. R. Tenzel and W. H. Spencer
The high incidence of malignant neoplasms in renal transplant recipients
and other immunosuppressed patients is well recognized. A large proportion
of these neoplasms are skin cancers. The frequent occurrence of other
ocular complications, such as cataract, elevated intraocular pressure,
hypertensive retinopathy, cytomegalovirus retinitis, and herpetic keratitis
in patients after kidney transplant, has also been described. This report
presents the clinical and histopathologic features of eyelid involvement by
keratoacanthoma and squamous cell carcinoma in two patients after renal
transplantation and alerts ophthalmologists to the potential for this
association.
