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The clinical and histopathological findings are described in a 10-year-old girl with xeroderma pigmentosum and multiple ophthalmic complications, including the eyelids, conjunctiva, orbit, cornea and iris; some of these complications took an unusual form. Histological examination following right orbital exenteration revealed an epibulbar squamous cell carcinoma penetrating the orbit and building a noose all around the ocular globe with subsequent strangulation. Moreover, a palpebral squamous cell carcinoma developed independently from the right lower lid and, unconnected with the epibulbar tumor, penetrated to the orbit.
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Calugaru, M., Barsu, M. Exuberant epibulbar tumor penetrating into the orbit in xeroderma pigmentosum. Graefe's Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 230, 352–357 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00165944
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