Bumps, Lumps, and Skin Cancer...
The doctors at the Parschauer Eye Center will examine patient's eyelids during routine and other eye exams. Patients commonly have many benign forms of eyelid bumps or lumps. Your eye doctor can assess and treat most of these lesions.
Styes, or pimples around the eyelid are the most common acute form of eyelid bump. Your eye doctor can prescribe different types of medications to resolve the condition, but the best treatment is frequent warm compresses. If a stye is not treated, it will turn into a non-painful hard bump called a chalazion. Chalazion are best treated with an excision by our lid specialist, Dr. Augustine Kellis. If a bump is unknown or changing, your eye doctor will have you see Dr. Augustine Kellis who can evaluate the lid condition and sometimes biopsy the bump in our office
If you have an eyelid bump that is constantly irritated or is growing in size, contact our office and inform your eye doctor immediately.
| Common Eyelid Bumps and Lumps |
| Hordeolum - A stye or pimple; infected lid gland - tender, red, painful to touch |
| Chalazion - An old stye, hard bump - non-painful to touch after the stye resolves |
| Verruca - A viral wart - small non-painful bumpy wart-like appearance |
| Papilloma - A smooth, benign, round, hard bump |
| Sebaceous Cyst - A clogged sweat gland - smooth, round, yellowish cyst |
| Some other more serious conditions can be | ||||
| Skin Cancer- Basal cell carcinoma- crater-like scaly bump | ||||
| Squamous cell carcinoma- scaly flat, crusty-like bump. | ||||
| Keratosis- similar to the squamous cell but benign | ||||
| Stye - Typical treatment for stye | ||||
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Removal of lumps and bumps
Dr. Kellis can evaluate and excise (remove) the bump or lump in one
office visit with little discomfort. Any uncertain or suspicious
bump will be sent to a pathologist for examination to rule out cancer.
