Subepidermal calcified nodules of the eyelid.

Abstract

Two children had subepidermal calcified nodules of the upper eyelid. The first patient was a 13-year-old girl who noted painless increase in size of a lesion involving her right upper eyelid over four months. The clinical diagnosis was "warty papilloma." The second patient was a 13-year-old boy who had a slowly growing, keratinized lesion involving his left upper eyelid. The clinical diagnosis was "cutaneous horn." On histopathologic examination, the nodules demonstrated the characteristic changes associated with subepidermal calcified nodules, including the presence of calcified material in the uppermost dermis, occasional foreign body giant cells around the calcific masses, acanthosis of the overlying epithelium, and calcium granules in the epidermis.