Primary eyelid mucinous adenocarcinoma of eccrine origin

To report a case of mucinous adenocarcinoma of the eyelid. A 70-year-old man presented with a lesion of his lower left eyelid, which had been growing over the past few years. An excisional biopsy was performed. The lesion was incompletely excised and recurrence at the excision site was observed at a 3-month follow-up visit. A histopathological examination of the excised specimen showed it to be a mucinous adenocarcinoma of eccrine origin. Primary mucinous adenocarcinoma of the eye lid is a rare malignant sweat gland tumor with a high incidence of local recurrence. It has to be differentiated from other adenocarcinomas which may rarely metastasize to the skin.