SEBACEOUS GLAND CARCINOMA OF THE EYELID PRESENTING AS A CONJUNCTIVAL PAPILLOMA

A 70-year-old man complained of the sensation of having a foreign body in his left eye in June 1992. A papillary tumor was found growing fro m the palpebral conjunctiva of the left upper eyelid. On June 30, the conjunctival tumor was excised: the histopathologic findings indicated a malignancy. On August 18, full-thickness excision of the upper eyel id, including the rest of the tumor, was performed. Histopathologic fi ndings showed a well-differentiated sebaceous gland carcinoma. We beli eve that sebaceous gland careinoma presenting as conjunctival papillom a, as found in our patient, may be uncommon.