CASE REPORT   

Journal of Radiological Review 2021 December;8(4):330-5

DOI: 10.23736/S2723-9284.21.00074-5

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language: English

Our experience with the therapeutic diagnostic path of a rare case of Malherbe’s calcifying epithelioma of the left upper eyelid

Antonella CORSETTI ¹ ✉, Claudio LATINI ², Cristina LATINI ³

¹ Department of Basic Radiology, San Giovanni Addolorata Hospital, Rome, Italy; ² Department of Basic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, San Giovanni Addolorata Hospital, Rome, Italy; ³ Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Umberto I Polyclinic Hospital, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

Malherbe’s calcifying epithelioma (pilomatrixoma) is a rare subcutaneous benign tumor of adnexal origin that can calcify. Although it has a preference for the childhood age, it can occur at any age with a slight preference for females. In this paper, the authors describe the instrumental diagnostic and therapeutic path of a 50-year-old woman suffering from pilomatrixoma of the upper palpebral fissure of the left eye, using integrated CT and MRI imaging methods to evaluate all the information obtained from second-level instrumental investigations.

KEY WORDS: Pilomatrixoma; Tomography, X-ray, computed; Magnetic resonance imaging