Clinical Features. Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common malignant eyelid tumor, accounting for 85% of all such tumors. [1] The tumor usually affects adults but may also occur in younger ...

Merkel cell carcinoma falls within the category of nonmelanoma skin cancer and is a rare neuroendocrine carcinoma of the skin, affecting about 2,500 people in the U.S. annually. Merkel cells are ...

The detection of metastases in Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) requires additional testing, such as pancytokeratin (panCK) or CK20, with no guarantee of success. Recent findings have identified ...

In the following paper, we review the major malignant tumors of the ocular adnexa including the eyelid, conjunctiva ... tumors including squamous cell carcinoma and malignant melanoma.

Specific variants of OSSN include mucoepidermoid carcinoma and spindle cell carcinoma ... with diffuse involvement of the conjunctiva and eyelid, or in patients not willing to come in for the ...

In the differential diagnosis of orbit and eyelid OALs, dacryoadenitis ... melanoma, thyroid carcinoma or renal cell carcinoma. Metastases from breast carcinoma often have a diffuse and ill ...