A 39-year-old man presented to the New England Eye Center with a slowly enlarging mass in the right eye that had become more noticeable over the past 2 weeks. His complete ocular and systemic review ...

Our patient had xanthelasma, or xanthelasma palpebrarum, oval or elongated yellowish plaques just beneath the periorbital skin. The plaques occur most commonly near the inner canthus of the eyelid, ...

A Chinese woman has been diagnosed with ocular melanoma after initially believing she had something caught in her right eye. Courtesy of New England Journal Researchers are keeping an eye on this ...

Question: Is it true you can get skin cancers on the eyelids? Answer: Yes , skin cancers on the eyelid are relatively common. The three most common are all related to sun exposure: basal cell, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — A lesion removed by ...

Eyelid ectropion occurs when the muscles around your eyelid weaken, causing the eyelid to turn outward and pull away from your eye. This condition is also called flipped eyelids or inverted eyelids.

Cancer can affect any part of the body, and skin cancer is more prevalent than any other type of cancer in the United States. It is estimated that about 45 percent of Americans older than 65 years of ...

An inner stye is an eye infection that causes a bump inside your eyelid. They may last longer than external styes. A stye is a small bump or swelling close to the edge of your eyelid, along the lash ...