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Conjunctival Leiomyosarcoma

Loo Wan-Wei1, 3, Ahmad-Alwi Azma-Azalina1, Zakariah Sakinah1, Awang Saleena2, Ismail Shatriah3, 4* and Embong Zunaina3, 4
Corresponding Author: Shatriah Ismail
Received: Feb 25, 2015
Accepted: Apr 01, 2015
Published: Apr 04, 2015
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DOI: 10.14437

Abstract

A 60-year-old lady presented with a fleshy mass at the 
nasal limbus of the right eye of two months’ duration 
which was progressively increase in size. Right eye 
examinations showed a fleshy exophytic mass arising 
from inferonasal limbus with the base involving cornea 
and conjunctiva. There was presence of few big feeder 
vessels at medial part of the mass. The mass had 
keratinized surface and bled easily on palpation. Excision 
of the mass was performed in order to rule out 
conjunctival squamous cell carcinoma. Histopathological 
examination of the mass revealed malignant spindle cells 
arranged in interlacing bundles with prominent nucleoli, 
abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm and atypical mitotic 
activity. There were positive immunohistochemical 
staining
 for
 actin,
histopathological 
 vimentin
features 
were 
 and
 S-100.
consistent
 The 
 with 
leiomyosarcoma of the conjunctiva. There was no sign of 
recurrence at 5 month post excision.

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Wan-Wei et al. (2015), Conjunctival Leiomyosarcoma. Aperito J Ophthalmol 1:108
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