ABSTRACT
PURPOSE: To report a rare case of subconjunctival oil granuloma caused by a high-pressure injection injury that showed excellent cosmetic result after tissue resection and conjunctival autograft. METHODS: A 49-year-old male was injured by the high-pressure sprouting of bunker fuel oil C in his right eye during ship work. Temporal bulbar conjunctival laceration and subconjunctival oil involving the nasal subconjunctival area were observed on the initial examination. Irrigation and aspiration of subconjunctival oil was performed, but the result was not satisfactory. After wound healing of the conjunctiva, radical resection and biopsy of the conjunctival and tenon tissue that formed the fibrotic adhesion around laceration wound was performed. Then, the superotemporal bulbar conjunctiva of contralateral eye was grafted to the lesion. RESULTS: Bunker fuel oil C in the subconjunctival space did not invade the intraocular area. However, excisional biopsy of the scarred lesion showed chronic granulomatous inflammation. Satisfactory cosmetic outcome was achieved after conjunctival autograft without any complications.
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Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Autografts , Biopsy , Cicatrix , Conjunctiva , Fuel Oils , Granuloma , Inflammation , Lacerations , Ships , Transplants , Wound Healing , Wounds and InjuriesABSTRACT
Oil granuloma develops mainly after injection of oil substances such as paraffin, silicone, etc, but there have been reports of oil granuloma after topical application of lipid substance to the body. A 22-year-old woman developed oil granuloma after the application of squalene on both lower eye-lids. Histopathologic findings ahowed acanthosis and dyskeratosis of the hair follicles. Lipid suketances staining with oil-red-O stain were found mainly on the hair follicles. and partly on the epidermis. We report a case of oil grinulorna caused by squalerie that may have penetrated through the hair follicles and partly through the epidermis resulting in chronic granulous changes in the dermis.
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Female , Humans , Young Adult , Dermis , Epidermis , Eyelids , Granuloma , Hair Follicle , Paraffin , Silicones , SqualeneABSTRACT
Oil granuloma is a foreignbody reaction which occurs after injection of lipid usually for cosmetic or therapeutic reasons. I present a case of eyelid oil granuloma caused by accidental high pressure injury in a 39-year-old man. The patient had a 2 x 0.5cm sized, firm, normardear subcutaneous nodule on the Rt. upper eyelid. Histopathologic examination showed a characteris swiss-cheese appearance. Eyelid oil granuloma caused by high pressure injury is very rare and my case is the first described in Korean medical literatures.