Diagnosis and Excision of a Solitary Trichoepithelioma
January 2022
in “
Optometric clinical practice
”
TLDR A woman had a non-cancerous skin tumor on her eyelid removed successfully.
The document discusses a case of a 59-year-old Caucasian female who presented with a rare benign tumor of hair follicle origin, known as solitary trichoepithelioma, on her right lower eyelid. This tumor, which has similar clinicopathological features to basal cell carcinoma, was completely removed under local anesthesia using a tissue-sparing surgical technique called shave biopsy. Histopathologic analysis confirmed the diagnosis of trichoepithelioma. The document concludes that optometrists should be able to differentiate benign trichoepithelioma from basal cell carcinoma.
