Eight years Auditing of Chalazion pattern in Tertiary Eye Centre, North-western Nigeria

Abstract

Chalazion is a chronic granulomatous inflammation of the meibomian gland. It presents as a single or multiple lid swelling. The  treatment of chalazion could be conservative (massage), drug (intralesion steroid), and surgical (incision and curettage). The study was  conducted to know the prevalence, management, and correlation between the clinical and histopathological diagnosis of chalazion in our  hospital. This is an eight-year retrospective study of all patients with Chalazion seen at our eye clinic between 1st January 2012 and  30th December 2019. The folders of all the patients diagnosed with chalazion were retrieved and the following information was extracted:  sociodemographic characteristics, presenting complaint, eye involved, lid involved, number of the lesion, treatment offered,  clinical and histopathological correlation of the lesion. The data was analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Science version 20.  One hundred and two patients with chalazion were seen during the study period. The age ranges from 9 years to 54 years with a mean age of 24.8 ± 7.1(SD). Majority of the patients (52%) were males while 48% were females. The majority 88.2% of the participants were less  than 30 years old. There was a correlation between clinical diagnosis and histopathology reports in 100 cases. One hundred of the  patients had incisions and curettage while only two patients were treated conservatively. Chalazion cases are not common eye diseases  seen in our eye clinic. There are no discrepancies between the preoperative clinical diagnosis and the pathological findings in our study.