What is Lipodermoid?
Lipodermoids are abnormal epibulbar growths of the adipose tissue. A conjunctival lesion, the lipodermoid (dermolipoma) is usually located near the temporal fornix and is composed of adipose tissue and dense connective tissue. Lipodermoids are congenital choristomas (1).
What causes limbal dermoid?
What causes a limbal dermoid? It is not known exactly what causes a limbal dermoid. Some patients, however, may have other medical conditions or syndromes that impact a limbal dermoid.
How do you treat Lipodermoid?
The treatment was surgical, where we carefully removed the lipodermoid lesion inside palpebral fissures, to fully preserve the bulbar conjunctiva and Tenon’s membrane during the removal of the conjunctival lipodermoid. Surgery was performed under local anesthesia (lidocaine 2% and adrenaline).
What is Dermolipoma eye?
Background: Dermolipoma is an uncommon benign tumor, congenitally occurring on the conjunctiva, and may be present at other sites. The appearance of dermolipoma closely resembles orbital fat prolapse and limbal dermoid, and therefore it is necessary to take this into account in diagnosis.
What is Epibulbar dermoid?
Epibulbar dermoids are benign tumors. They tend to be firm, white-yellow or pinkish tumors straddling the limbus in the temporal (primarily inferotemporal) quadrants. They are located both over the cornea and sclera. They can range from several millimeters to over a centimeter in size.
How do you remove a limbal dermoid?
The method of choice to treat a limbal dermoid is surgical excision. The use of amniotic membrane transplantation in the removal of a limbal dermoid has recently been described by others.
What causes Dermolipoma?
Dermolipoma is believed to be a congenital solid choristoma that is derived from an ectopia of the ectoderm to the conjunctiva, probably due to sequestration at the time of embryonic development of the eyelid.
What is Epibulbar?
Medical Definition of epibulbar : situated upon the eyeball.