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Title

Case report: A patient with eyelid and anterior orbital Myeloproliferative hypereosinophilic syndrome

Purpose	The aim of the study is to evaluate the clinical- and histopathological discrepancy of the inflamed eyelid/anterior orbital mass features.
Methods	Case report
Results	The clinical picture revealed an erythemaous eyelid-skin inflamed mass without effect on local and general antibiotic treatments. The histopathological “diagnose was made as “chalazion material”. However the mass was superior located from the tarsus pre- and intraseptal with a lot of eosinophilic cell in the pathological material; where the patient already was known with a pulmonal myoblastic hypereosinophilic disease and treated with hydrea with the extra feature of a red face.
Conclusion	Knowledge of the systemic disease of a patient and the precise location of a pathologic ophthalmic process is important to make the definitive diagnosis. In difficult processes it is always necessary that pathologist and ophthalmologist consulted each other and made together the end conclusion

Authors 1

Last name	AL-SABAI
Initials	N
Department	UZ Antwerpen/ UZ Brussel
City	Brussel

Authors 2

Last name	de Keizer
Initials	RJW
Department	UZ Antwerpen
City	antwerpen

Authors 3

Last name	Bal
Initials	T
Department	UZ Antwerpen
City	Antwerpen

Authors 4

Last name	De Groot
Initials	V
Department	UZ Antwerpen
City	Antwerpen