Keratoacanthoma of the Eye Lid.

Rho, Won Suck; Kim, Hong Bok

Case Report

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1986;27(6):1085-1089.
Published online June 1, 1986.

Keratoacanthoma of the Eye Lid.

Won Suck Rho, Hong Bok Kim

Department of Ophthalmology, Yonsei University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

하안검에 발생한 각화극세포종

김홍복(Hong Bok Kim),노원석(Won Suk Rho)

Abstract

Keratoacanthoma is important because it is frequently mistaken, both clinically and histologically, for basal-call or squamous-cell carcinoma. The usual clinical picture is that of a rapidly enlarging, nodular, umbilicated lesion occurring more often in the lower eye lid. A keratoacanthoma sometimes merges into a carcinoma and is misdiagnosed histologically, therefore cases originally diagnosed as keratoacanthoma should be closely followed. A 64-year-old Korean woman was found to have a small enlarging, umbilicated tumor in right lower lid which was recurred in 3 months after removal of tumor under the diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma in some hospital. In our hospital, the tumor was removed under local anesthesia and found to be keratoacanthoma histopathologically.