Beyond Belief: A Rare Encounter with Eye Teratoma

Abstract

A 7-year-old boy presented with progressive swelling in left eye since childhood. Examination revealed a soft cystic mass in the medial aspect of the left orbit. Rudimentary eye structures were present in left eye. There was no evidence of any exposure keratitis. A clinical diagnosis of congenital cystic eyeball was made and patient underwent cystic fluid aspiration followed by intralesional steroid injection followed by enucleation. Histopathology showed mature neuroglial tissue, fibro collagenous and vascular proliferation with mature cartilage suggestive of congenital mature teratoma. This case report tends to highlight the features of this rare case of congenital mature teratoma of eye.