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REPORT OF AN UNUSUAL CASE IN WHICH THE INITIAL LESION WAS ON THE EYELID

THOMAS N. GRAHAM, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1942;27(6):1188-1192.

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The following case of idiopathic multiple hemorrhagic sarcoma (Kaposi) is reported because of the unusual distribution of the lesions.

M. LaC., a white man aged 56, was first observed in the Dermatological Clinic of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary on Nov. 9, 1937. He gave a history of his eruptions having started eight months previously with a "growth" on the right upper eyelid. Subsequently there appeared similar lesions on the right lower eyelid, the right ear, the chin, the neck and the chest. Examination revealed a purplish elevated indurated nodule, 1.5 cm. in diameter, on the margin of the right upper eyelid adjacent to the outer canthus. This lesion protruded downward over the lateral third of the eyeball, making it impossible for the patient to approximate the eyelids. At the outer canthus of this eye and extending to the margin of the lower lid were two similar confluent . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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From the Dermatological Clinic of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary.

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