Cellular neurothekeoma of the eyelid: A rare tumor with a common clinical presentation
Hare Ram Ojha,
Neha Verma,
Himanshu Srivastava
et al.
Abstract:We report a case of cellular neurothekeoma (NTK) in a 4-year-old male boy, which presented as a painless, progressive, left upper lid mass of 6 months’ duration. The left upper lid mass was solitary and dome shaped, causing mechanical ptosis. A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was performed followed by surgical excision of the mass in two stages, which, after histopathology and immunohistochemistry, was confirmed to be cellular NTK with no recurrence reported so far. To our knowledge, cellular NTK (a variant o… Show more
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