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Eyelid tumour and juvenile hyaline fibromatosis.

De Wan J, Evens F, De Mey A

Department of Plastic and Recontructive Surgery, Brugmann University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium. jeandewan@hotmail.com

We report the case of a 2-year-old boy suffering from juvenile hyaline fibromatosis. Our patient had all the main clinical features of the disease, i.e. multiple cutaneous facial nodules, gingival fibromatosis and osteolytic lesions in the proximal metaphysis of the tibia and humerus symmetrically. However, he also presented an eyelid tumour scalloping the superior orbital osseous rim, causing blepharoptosis. The histopathology confirmed this very rare condition. After 6 months, our patient has improved functionally and cosmetically following surgical resection of the eyelid tumours without recurrence.

Published 4 January 2005 in Br J Plast Surg, 58(1): 106-11.
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