Atypical presentation of invasive myoepithelioma in a pediatric patient

ABSTRACT

A 15-year-old girl presented with a mobile lesion with yellowish hue on the posterior lamella of the right lower eyelid adjacent to the punctum. Four years prior, a lesion thought to be a chalazion was excised from the same location. There was subsequent progressive painless enlargement. The patient ultimately underwent an internal excision of the mass. Histopathology demonstrated infiltrative nests and cords of epithelioid and plasmacytoid cells with abundant eosinophilic myxoid-collagenous stroma along with focal infiltration of skeletal muscle with immunohistochemical staining consistent with an invasive myoepithelioma of mixed-cell type. Given concern for invasive disease, the patient underwent subsequent Mohs resection resulting in a 25% full thickness eyelid defect, which was repaired with direct closure of the wedge defect. There has been no recurrence of the disease for 7 months since the Mohs resection. This case illustrates the atypical presentation of an invasive myoepithelioma of the eyelid in a pediatric patient.

KEYWORDS:

• Eyelid lesion
• eyelid malignancy
• eyelid tumor
• myoepithelioma
• recurrent myoepithelioma

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