OCULAR TUMORAL CALCINOSIS - A CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL STUDY

Tumoral calcinosis is a rare systemic disorder characterized by para-a rticular ectopic soft-tissue calcification. This case report describes the ophthalmic features (palpebral conjunctival calcific nodules, the white limbal girdle of Vogt, disc drusen, and angioid streaks) in a 3 8-year-old Asian woman who had tumoral calcinosis associated with hype rphosphatemia. A morphologic study of the calcified nodules on the pal pebral conjunctiva disclosed deposition of hydroxyapatite crystals in an extracellular matrix (deposit) containing alcianophilic mucopolysac charides. Excision of the eyelid nodules was not followed by recurrenc e.