[Lofgren syndrome revealed by eyelid tumor].

INTRODUCTION

The Lofgren syndrom is a particular variety of sarcoidose. The ocular attack is dominated in this syndrome by anterior uveitis. More rarely the eyelids and the orbitary structures are attached.

PURPOSE: In this work, we report a Lofgren syndrome case revealed by eyelid tumor.

OBSERVATION: It is about 42 year-old patient who consults for a right inferior eye-lid tumefaction developped for 2 months. The diagnosis of Lofgren syndrome was evoqued because of the association of fever, arthritis, erythema nodosum, tuberculin anergia, hypercalcinuria and mediastinal adenopathy at thoracic scan-tomography. The diagnosis was then confirmed by biopsy of palpebral tumor which showed multiple epithelioid and gigantocellular granuloma without caseous necrosis.

CONCLUSION

The Lofgren syndrome is a multivisceral chronic affection. The eye and its annexes constitute frequent cibles of this affection for which they react by a diverse and rich symptomalogy and which can be presented by eye-lid tumors with orbital extension.