Medical Must-See: Pencil-core granuloma leaves child green around the gills

Doctors speculated that the pencil’s colour explained the unusual progression of the condition.

A two-year-old’s swollen eyelid led to a pencil-core granuloma diagnosis in this colourful case from Japan.

A subcutaneous induration of the patient’s left lower eyelid had been present for the past five months, which measured 2cm by the time doctors from Hiroshima examined her.