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Charbel E. Rameh, MD; Alain Sabri, MD; Riad Ma’luf, MD
American University of Beirut-Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2007;133(8):839.

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A 16-year-old girl presented with a 2-month history of right medial canthal swelling and epiphora. Physical examination revealed a firm, slightly tender, subcutaneous right medial canthal mass extending to the lacrimal fossa. The skin over the mass was movable and slightly erythematous. The lacrimal drainage system was partially patent to syringing. The findings of the rest of the eye examination were normal. There was no history of trauma to the area. Computed tomography revealed a 1.2 x 0.6-cm enhancing soft-tissue mass in the medial canthal area extending to the lacrimal fossa (Figure 1). The lesion had no malignant imaging characteristics.

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The patient underwent an incisional biopsy under local anesthesia. Pathologic examination findings of the specimen revealed bland-looking spindle cells arranged in short interlacing fascicles. The cells had pale-staining, ovoid to spindle-shaped nuclei and prominent nucleoli. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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