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Breast cancer metastatic to the eyelids Volume 10, numéro 6, September 2000

Auteurs
Department of Dermatopathology CHU, Sart Tilman, B-4000 Liège, Belgium.
  • Page(s) : 473-4
  • Année de parution : 2000

Metastatic eyelid tumors are rare. They represent 0.1 to 1.4% of all eyelid neoplasms [1]. However, they are great mimickers and should be included in the differential diagnosis of lid tumours especially in elderly women with a history of breast cancer, since the breast represents the most common primary site [1, 2]. We report a case of breast carcinoma in an 83 year old woman with bilateral metastases to the eyelids. A review of the literature [...]