Melanosis oculi

Melanosis oculi

A 20-year-old white female, who is an avid tanning-bed user, was referred for the evaluation of a pigmented lesion in her left eye. She reported occasional lid swelling, pain, tearing and light sensitivity for two years, which she attributed to wearing contact lenses. The patient received a diagnosis of ocular melanosis 6 months prior to her current presentation. On examination, the best-correc...

Intracranial melanocytomas and melanosis oculi: case report and literature review

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Melanosis coli.

n engl j med 368;24 nejm.org june 13, 2013 2303 A 50-year-old woman underwent colonoscopy for rectal bleeding. Her entire colon appeared dark brown and black, a finding consistent with the diagnosis of melanosis coli (Panel A). Random biopsy specimens from the descending colon revealed sheets and clusters of macrophages laden with brownish pigment in the lamina propria (Panel B, arrow). A tiny,...

Syphilitic Melanosis

Sir,?I am referring to a paper 'on p. 172 of the Indian Medical Gazette, April 1944, on 'Syphilitic melanoderma' where ycm state that in Becher and Obermayer no mention is made of syphilis as a cause of melanosis. In my book ' Histologie der Hautkrankheiten' Springer Verlag, Berlin 1925, Vol. I, p. 517, I do mention it and refer to Fourrier and to Unna as describing it as a rare type of the dis...