Inflammatory eyelid diseases from an ophthalmic oncologist's perspective
Grishina E.E.

M.F. Vladimirsrky Moscow Regional Clinical and Research Institute

In cancer patients with reduced immunity, various inflammatory diseases of the eyelids can develop against the background of specific antitumor treatment. But many tumors can also occur as inflammatory diseases of the eyelids.
The article describes the clinical symptoms of the main inflammatory diseases of the eyelids in the light of differential diagnosis with tumors of the eyelids. The clinical picture of tumors of the eyelids, masked under inflammatory diseases, is highlighted. Particular attention is paid to the description of T-cell lymphoma of the skin of the eyelids, adenocarcinoma of the meibomian gland, Kaposi’s sarcoma, skin cancer with spread to the rib edge of the eyelid, and precancerous skin diseases.
An atypical picture of an inflammatory disease, a lack of pain syndrome, an ineffectiveness of anti-inflammatory treatment, "out-of-eye" manifestations of the disease (lymphoma, Kaposi's sarcoma) are the signs of the tumor. The diagnosis of the tumor is finally established after the morphological examination of the biopsy specimen.

Key words: abscess of the eyelids, phlegmon of the eyelids, T-cell lymphoma of the skin of the eyelids; chalyazion, adenocarcinoma of the meibomian gland; stye, Kaposi's sarcoma; blepharitis, basal cell carcinoma, carcinoma in situ.
For citation: Grishina E.E. Inflammatory eyelid diseases from an ophthalmic oncologist's perspective // RMJ. Clinical ophthalmology. 2017. № 3. P. 190–193.