ABSTRACT Objective: Delineate an epidemiological profile of patients affected by eyelid tumors, while comparing the rate of correct clinical diagnosis to the gold standard histopathological analysis, verifying the data with the literature. Methods: Retrospective analysis of medical records, from 2015 to 2019, of patients submitted to excisional biopsy of the lesions with consequent histopathological classification of the anatomical specimen. Patients’ age and sex and tumors location, clinical diagnosis and histopathological classification were considered. Results: In total, 331 eyelid tumors from […]

Objective: To analyze the accuracy of the clinical examination in the diagnosis of eyelid lesions. Methods: From the observation of thirtyfive photos of benign and malignant eyelid tumors were presented to ophthalmologists, for each picture, it was asked 3 questions: 1) the lesion is malignant or not; 2) if considered malignant, the probably histological type; and 3) the tumor is aggressive or not. The phisicians were divided into 9 groups, according to academic degree (time since graduation and Oculoplastics specialty […]