Editorial
Demographics, Etiology, and Behavior of Conjunctival Squamous Cell Carcinoma in the 21st Century
Ophthalmology, Vol.116(11), pp.2045-2046
2009
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2009.09.031
PMID: 19883851
Abstract
The cancer of the squamous epithelium was labeled as “epithelioma” by Rudolph Virchow in the 1850s, but over the course of a century, its name gradually changed to squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). Although ophthalmologists deal with many primary, secondary, and metastatic forms of SCC in the eye and ocular adnexae, they tend to consider SCC arising in the conjunctiva as their “own” disease and typically assume responsibility for diagnosis and management of this disorder. 1 Between the turn of the 20th century and the mid-1960s, this lesion underwent an identity crisis in which it was given many different names, including “leukoplakia,” “limbal epithelioma,” “dyskeratosis,” “dysplasia,” “pre-cancerous and cancerous hyperplasia,” and “Bowen’s disease,” among others. 1 In due course, this entity assumed the names it carries today: conjunctival squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC) or ocular surface squamous neoplasia (OSSN) which is considered “in situ” if it is restricted within the epithelium, and “invasive” if it is infiltrating beyond the confines of the epithelial basement membrane. 1,2
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Demographics, Etiology, and Behavior of Conjunctival Squamous Cell Carcinoma in the 21st Century
- Creators
- Zeynel A KarciogluMichael D Wagoner
- Resource Type
- Editorial
- Publication Details
- Ophthalmology, Vol.116(11), pp.2045-2046
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.ophtha.2009.09.031
- PMID
- 19883851
- NLM abbreviation
- Ophthalmology
- ISSN
- 0161-6420
- eISSN
- 1549-4713
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2009
- Academic Unit
- Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9983979907302771
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