A case of choroidal melanocytoma mimicking a choroidal melanoma.

[Choroidectomy in choroidal melanocytoma. Clinical and histopathologic characteristics].

PURPOSE/METHODS To report a rare case of melanocytoma in a choroidal location. The clinical and echographic characteristics were similar to those of a melanoma. The treatment selected in our case was a choroidectomy. Tissue was stained with hematoxylin-eosin, periodic acid-Schiff, Masson's trichromic and immunohistochemistry was performed. RESULTS/CONCLUSIONS The clinical and histopathologic ...

Fulminant hepatic failure due to metastatic choroidal melanoma

Pseudomelanoma at a Referral Center in Iran

PURPOSE To report the diagnoses of lesions initially misdiagnosed as ocular melanoma. METHODS This retrospective study included all new patients who were referred with a presumptive diagnosis of choroidal melanoma to the ocular oncology clinic at Farabi Eye Hospital from January 2009 to December 2012. Each patient underwent a full ocular examination and B-scan ultrasonography by an ocular onc...

Resection of uveal melanocytoma: clinicopathological correlation.

Four patients had pigmented lesions in the anterior uveal tract and choroid which presented clinically as malignant melanomas. All the lesions were successfully removed by local excision. Histopathological studies showed the tumours to be melanocytomas, indicating that enucleation or irradiation would have been contraindicated. The 3 patients with iris and ciliary body melanocytomas continue to...

Sequential bilateral dacryocele.

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