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Gary John V. Mercado, MD; Kaan Gündüz, MD; Carol L. Shields, MD; Jerry A. Shields, MD; Ralph C. Eagle, Jr, MD
Philadelphia, Pa

Arch Ophthalmol. 1998;116:962-963.

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APPROXIMATELY 22% of lacrimal fossa lesions that undergo biopsy are epithelial in origin.¹ Pleomorphic adenoma (benign mixed tumor) is the most common epithelial tumor, accounting for 53% of all epithelial lesions of the lacrimal fossa.¹ Pleomorphic adenoma is rare in children. In 2 major series evaluating a total of 590 pediatric orbital tumors, no case of pleomorphic adenoma of the lacrimal gland was encountered.^2-3 To our knowledge, only 5 cases of pleomorphic adenoma in children have been reported,^4-6 the youngest child being 6 years old.⁶ We report herein another case in a young patient.

A 15-year-old girl had a 1-month history of mild proptosis of the left eye. It was learned from her medical history that she had had intermittent swelling of the left eyelids for 4 years, which . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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