Conjunctival Involvement in a Patient with Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma
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Malignant conjunctival melanoma. A case report.
T.K.M. a 50-year old Chinese male presented in March 1985 with a four-year history of multiple pigmented growths in the left conjunctiva. Examination showed a main pedunculated pigmented conjunctival growth of 1.5cm x 1.0cm in size with increased vaseularity and irregular surface at the left upper tarsal conjunctiva (Fig. 1) and a few other scattered lesions over the bulbar and the limbal conju...
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عنوان ژورنال: Oncology Research and Treatment
سال: 2002
ISSN: 2296-5270,2296-5262
DOI: 10.1159/000055206