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¹M.D., Diyarbakır Training and Research Hospatal, Eye Clinic Diyarbakır/TURKEY
²M.D., Diyarbakır Training and Research Hospatal, Pathology Clinic Diyarbakır/TURKEY
³M. D. Asistant Professor, Dicle University Faculity of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology Diyarbakır/TURKEY Sixty seven years old male patient was admitted to our ophthalmology clinic with a complaint of a growing mass at his right eyebrow for three months. At the medial side of his right eyebrow 15x10x4 mm sized, red to purple coloured, with an irregular surface, painless, mobile mass was present. The mass was growing slightly towards the upper eye lid. We performed excisional biopsy to the patient which was suspected as a malignant dermal lesion at clinical examination. It was diagnosed as pilomatrixoma on histopathological examination. Pilomatrixoma is a rare tumor which is generally observed during childhood at the periorbital region. However this tumor may be seen between the ages of 50 and 65. Especially in elderly patients mass lesions at periorbital region which suggests malignancy pilomatrixoma should be thought in clinical differential diagnosis. Keywords : Periorbital region, pilomatrixoma