TY - JOUR
KW - Corneal Diseases
KW - Diagnosis, Differential
KW - Eye Infections, Bacterial
KW - Eye Neoplasms
KW - Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous
KW - Humans
KW - Keratoplasty, Penetrating
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
AU - Wedemeyer L L
AU - Fuerst D J
AU - Perlman A R
AU - McDonnell J
AU - Rao N A
AB - <p>We describe a 50-year-old man with a 10-year history of gradually enlarging limbal tumors and conjunctival injection. An excised limbal mass presented a diagnostic challenge histopathologically and was initially believed to be a fibrous histiocytoma. Special stains, however, revealed acid-fast organisms in the fibrous histiocytes, and the diagnosis was changed to corneal leproma. This case confirms the existence of fibrous histiocytoma-like lesions in leprosy, which in this form can be termed fibrous histiocytoid leprosy. Furthermore, it suggests the need for special stains to rule out infectious cause in lesions believed to be atypical fibrous histiocytomas.</p>
BT - Cornea
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8261786?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1993 Nov
DO - 10.1097/00003226-199311000-00012
IS - 6
J2 - Cornea
LA - eng
N2 - <p>We describe a 50-year-old man with a 10-year history of gradually enlarging limbal tumors and conjunctival injection. An excised limbal mass presented a diagnostic challenge histopathologically and was initially believed to be a fibrous histiocytoma. Special stains, however, revealed acid-fast organisms in the fibrous histiocytes, and the diagnosis was changed to corneal leproma. This case confirms the existence of fibrous histiocytoma-like lesions in leprosy, which in this form can be termed fibrous histiocytoid leprosy. Furthermore, it suggests the need for special stains to rule out infectious cause in lesions believed to be atypical fibrous histiocytomas.</p>
PY - 1993
SP - 532
EP - 6
T2 - Cornea
TI - Fibrous histiocytoid leprosy of the cornea.
VL - 12
SN - 0277-3740
ER -