Conjunctival stromal tumor in an 18-month-old girl: A case report
Harrison Zhang Dai, Rachel Kim Sobel, Caitlin Hughes · 2026
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Harrison Zhang Dai and co-authors present a 2026 case report on a rare benign tumor of the eye surface in a toddler. Conjunctival stromal tumors were first described in 2012 and have been reported fewer than sixty times. They are rarer still in children, and this patient is the youngest yet.
The eighteen-month-old girl had a slowly growing mass on the tear duct opening of her right upper eyelid. The lump was not attached to the eyeball, and her vision was normal. Surgeons removed it completely. Under the microscope it showed the tumor's signature mix of bland spindle cells, odd inclusions, and giant cells with flower-like nuclei. Staining matched the diagnosis. The authors note it is only the third case in a child and urge doctors to consider it at any age, while distinguishing it from a similar growth linked to body-wide syndromes.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Harrison Zhang Dai, Rachel Kim Sobel, Caitlin Hughes |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 9336 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |