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Biopsy of the Eyelid, the Lacrimal Sac, and the Temporal Artery

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This chapter is not intended to be a comprehensive account of diseases of the skin and soft tissue, for which subjects excellent textbooks are widely available. The topics chosen are those commonly encountered in an ophthalmic pathology laboratory. The most common malignant eyelid specimens are basal cell carcinomas with far fewer squamous and sebaceous carcinomas. Benign pathology includes papillomas (basal or squamous cell), chalazia and naevi. Adnexal tumours, angiomas, actinic keratosis and lymphoma, are less common. Melanoma is rare. In many conditions there can be poor correlation between clinical and histological diagnosis emphasizing the need for a tissue diagnosis in all excised specimens.

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Roberts, F., Thum, C.K. (2021). Biopsy of the Eyelid, the Lacrimal Sac, and the Temporal Artery. In: Lee's Ophthalmic Histopathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76525-5_10

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