Eye
Conjunctiva
Mesenchymal tumors
Fibrous histiocytoma
Author: Deepali Jain, M.D.
Last author update: 1 October 2014
Last staff update: 23 December 2020
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PubMed Search: Fibrous histiocytoma conjunctiva
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Definition / general | Case reports | Treatment | Gross description | Microscopic (histologic) description | Microscopic (histologic) imagesCite this page: Jain D. Fibrous histiocytoma. PathologyOutlines.com website. https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/eyefhconj.html. Accessed September 21st, 2023.
Definition / general
- Occasionally occurs in conjunctiva
Case reports
- Two young children with coexisting xeroderma pigmentosum (Arch Pathol Lab Med 1991;115;910)
- 19 year old man with corneoscleral tumor (Br J Ophthalmol 2002;86:477)
Treatment
- Excision is curative (Am J Ophthalmol 2006;142:1036)
Gross description
- Fleshy, yellow, nodular
Microscopic (histologic) description
- Elongated fibroblasts, plump histiocytes with occasional vacuolated cytoplasm, some multinucleated giant cells, scattered lymphocytes (Am J Ophthalmol 1988;106:579)
Microscopic (histologic) images
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