You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Letter
Pleomorphic adenoma of the lacrimal gland in a 10 year old girl
  1. Carolyn A Cates1,
  2. Ruth M Manners1,
  3. Geoffrey E Rose2
  1. 1Southampton Eye Unit, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK
  2. 2Moorfields Eye Hospital, London EC1V 2PD, UK
  1. Correspondence to: Mrs C A Cates; cacates{at}doctors.org.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.86.2.249

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Pleomorphic adenoma is the most common epithelial tumour of the lacrimal gland, representing 12% of lacrimal fossa lesions.1 It typically presents in middle age and is rare in children under the age of 16 years, with only a few previously reported cases.2–6 We present an additional case in a 10 year old girl with photographic documentation of longstanding orbital asymmetry.

    Case report

    A 10 year old girl was referred with a 3 month history of …

    View Full Text