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| OPHTHALMIC IMAGE |
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| Year : 2023 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 607 |
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Conjunctival capillary hemangioma in an elderly immunocompromised patient
Matthew J Hartley, Shweta Singh, Christopher Matthews
Ophthalmology Department, Darlington Memorial Hospital, United Kingdom
| Date of Web Publication | 28-Apr-2023 |
Correspondence Address:
Matthew J Hartley
16 Latimer Street, North Shields, NE30 4EY
United Kingdom
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_1353_22
How to cite this article:
Hartley MJ, Singh S, Matthews C. Conjunctival capillary hemangioma in an elderly immunocompromised patient. Indian J Ophthalmol Case Rep 2023;3:607 |
How to cite this URL:
Hartley MJ, Singh S, Matthews C. Conjunctival capillary hemangioma in an elderly immunocompromised patient. Indian J Ophthalmol Case Rep [serial online] 2023 [cited 2023 Jun 4];3:607. Available from: https://www.ijoreports.in/text.asp?2023/3/2/607/374893 |
Conjunctival capillary hemangiomas are rare in adults, particularly over the age of 60 years.[1],[2] In this report, a 70-year-old Caucasian male receiving weekly immunosuppressive etanercept injections for psoriatic polyarthritis presented with a painless lesion in the right eye that grew rapidly over the course of 1 month which became ulcerated and bled easily. On examination, a 10 × 4 mm, pedunculated, apically pigmented, erythematous lesion arising from the bulbar conjunctiva was seen [Figure 1]. The lesion was excised wholly from its base under topical anesthesia, and subsequent histology confirmed a lobulated capillary hemangioma with no malignancy identified. Following excision, he made a complete recovery. | Figure 1: Presenting pre-operative right eye conjunctival capillary hemangioma seen on the above images with the post-operative appearances 2 weeks after complete excision seen on the below images
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| 1. | Shields JA, Mashayekhi A, Kligman BE, Kunz WB, Criss J, Eagle RC Jr, et al. Vascular tumors of the conjunctiva in 140 cases. Ophthalmology 2011;118:1747-53.  |
| 2. | Shields CL, Shields JA. Tumors of the conjunctiva and cornea. Surv Ophthalmol 2004;49:3-24. |
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