Bilateral black hypopyon in a patient with self-healing cutaneous malignant melanoma.

Since Ernst Fuchs's publication on sarcoma of the uveal tract,' in which he stated that malignant melanoma does not metastasise to the eye, more than 40 cases have been reported.2-28 An autopsy series of 15 patients who had died from disseminated cutaneous malignant melanoma, and who had no ocular symptoms, showed a 33% incidence of ocular metastases.29 The case is reported here of a man who, because of spontaneous regression of his disease, lived long enough to develop an unusual manifestation of bilateral ocular involvement in the forn of black hypopyon. Only 2 cases, both unilateral have previously been recorded.