Benign epithelial tumors. The most common benign tumors of the eyelid skin epithelium are squamous papilloma, pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia, seborrheic ...NCBISkiptomaincontentSkiptonavigationResourcesHowToAboutNCBIAccesskeysMyNCBISignintoNCBISignOutJournalListIndianJOphthalmolv.64(3);2016MarPMC4869455IndianJOphthalmol.2016Mar;64(3):177–190.doi: 10.4103/0301-4738.181752PMCID:PMC4869455PMID:27146927PathologyofeyelidtumorsJacobPe’erJacobPe’erDepartmentofOphthalmology,Hadassah-HebrewUniversityMedicalCenter,Jerusalem,IsraelFindarticlesbyJacobPe’erAuthorinformationArticlenotesCopyrightandLicenseinformationDisclaimerDepartmentofOphthalmology,Hadassah-HebrewUniversityMedicalCenter,Jerusalem,IsraelCorrespondenceto:Prof.JacobPe’er,DepartmentofOphthalmology,Hadassah-HebrewUniversityMedicalCenter,P.O.Box12000,Jerusalem91120,Israel.E-mail:li.gro.hassadah@reepReceived2015Nov5;Accepted2016Jan31.Copyright:©IndianJournalofOphthalmologyThisisanopenaccessarticledistributedunderthetermsoftheCreativeCommonsAttributionNonCommercialShareAlike3.0License,whichallowsotherstoremix,tweak,andbuildupontheworknoncommercially,aslongastheauthoriscreditedandthenewcreationsarelicensedundertheidenticalterms.ThisarticlehasbeencitedbyotherarticlesinPMC.Theeyelidsarecomposedoffourlayers:skinandsubcutaneoustissueincludingitsadnexa,striatedmuscle,tarsuswiththemeibomianglands,andthepalpebralconjunctiva.Benignandmalignanttumorscanarisefromeachoftheeyelidlayers.Mosteyelidtumorsareofcutaneousorigin,mostlyepidermal,whichcanbedividedintoepithelialandmelanocytictumors.Benignepitheliallesions,cysticlesions,andbenignmelanocyticlesionsareverycommon.ThemostcommonmalignanteyelidtumorsarebasalcellcarcinomainCaucasiansandsebaceousglandcarcinomainAsians.Adnexalandstromaltumorsarelessfrequent.Thepresentreviewdescribesthemoreimportanteyelidtumorsaccordingtothefollowinggroups:Benignandmalignantepithelialtumors,benignandmalignantmelanocytictumors,benignandmalignantadnexaltumors,stromaleyelidtumors,lymphoproliferativeand