Frequency and clinical features of visceral malignancy in a consecutive case series of patients with periocular sebaceous gland carcinoma.

Purpose: To report the frequency and clinical features of internal visceral malignancy in an unselected series of patients with sebaceous gland carcinoma (SGC).

Methods: A non-comparative retrospective case series of consecutive patients with a histologically proven diagnosis of periocular sebaceous cell carcinoma treated at the University Eye Hospital, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg between 1981 and 2000.

Results: Twenty-three patients were identified, each with one tumor.

Loss of fragile histidine triad (FHIT) expression and microsatellite instability in periocular sebaceous gland carcinoma in patients with Muir-Torre syndrome.

Purpose: To report fragile histidine triad expression and microsatellite instability in periocular sebaceous gland carcinoma.

Design: Interventional case series.

Methods: Biopsy specimens of periocular sebaceous gland carcinoma obtained from six patients (mean age, 60 +/- 17 years; range, 38 to 83 years, 5 male, 1 female) with Muir-Torre syndrome and histopathologically proven sebaceous gland carcinoma were studied immunohistochemically for the presence of fragile histidine triad protein.