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Malignant Pediatric Eyelid Tumors

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Pediatric Oculoplastic Surgery

Abstract

With the increasing diagnosis of malignant skin lesions in the adult population, knowledge about the frequency, types, and presentations of pediatric eyelid malignancies becomes important. Though not a common condition, eyelid malignancies in children require a different thought process than those found in adults. Rather than occurring as isolated lesions, most pediatric malignant eyelid lesions occur as part of a systemic process that manifests itself in the eyelid or as a clinically recognizable lesion that over time has a defined risk for malignant transformation in the eyelid or elsewhere in the body. Most children (defined here as those individuals age 18 years and under) with a malignant lesion of the eyelid, even a basal cell carcinoma, will require additional specialty or subspecialty referral to ensure adequate evaluation and treatment of any systemic manifestations of disease.

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  1. The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 19104, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    James A. Katowitz MD, FACS (Professor of Ophthalmology, Director of Oculoplastic and Orbital Surgery) (Professor of Ophthalmology, Director of Oculoplastic and Orbital Surgery)

  2. The Edwin and Fannie Gray Hall Center for Human Appearance, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and the Division of Pediatric Ophthalmology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 19104, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    James A. Katowitz MD, FACS (Professor of Ophthalmology, Director of Oculoplastic and Orbital Surgery) (Professor of Ophthalmology, Director of Oculoplastic and Orbital Surgery)

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Fries, P.D. (2002). Malignant Pediatric Eyelid Tumors. In: Katowitz, J.A. (eds) Pediatric Oculoplastic Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21630-0_14

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