. A treatise on diseases of the eye . Coriiu of eyelid. (Stereoscopic picture.) Enchondroma.—Enchondroma is seldom met with. Osteoma.—Osteoma is very rare. Sbrana^ mentions a case of a bonytumor occurring in the upper lid of an Arab, aged forty-eight growth was probably congenital. Xanthelasma.—Xanthelasma appears as dull, yellow patches of irregularsha])c, Hat and slightly elevated, in the skin, usually of the npper lid,most frc(|uently near the imier canthus. The })atches are almost alwaysl)ilateral, but may be more extensive on one side than on the other. They})rodnce no symptoms,
. A treatise on diseases of the eye . Coriiu of eyelid. (Stereoscopic picture.) Enchondroma.—Enchondroma is seldom met with. Osteoma.—Osteoma is very rare. Sbrana^ mentions a case of a bonytumor occurring in the upper lid of an Arab, aged forty-eight growth was probably congenital. Xanthelasma.—Xanthelasma appears as dull, yellow patches of irregularsha])c, Hat and slightly elevated, in the skin, usually of the npper lid,most frc(|uently near the imier canthus. The })atches are almost alwaysl)ilateral, but may be more extensive on one side than on the other. They})rodnce no symptoms, and are objectionable only on account of thedisfigurement. The growth occurs in elderly adults, and is more commonin females than in males. ]\iili()l<)(/i/.—Rather large cells, which contain minute fat globulesand granules of brown or yellow pigment, are numerous in these and Pick have found that the cells of xanthoma contain a bodyresulting from the combination of a fatty acid with cholesterin, to whichthe
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