Uveal melanoma presenting as cataract and staphyloma

Blind eyes can harbor a choroidal melanoma. We report a case of uveal melanoma presenting as staphyloma and complicated cataract in a 45-year-old female. The left eye was blind for six months. She underwent comprehensive ocular examination but fundus examination was precluded due to total cataract....

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Autores principales: Khetan, Vikas, Gupta, Kshanada, Mohan, E. Ravindra, Gopal, Lingam
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Brief Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2683430/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19384018
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.49398
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author Khetan, Vikas
Gupta, Kshanada
Mohan, E. Ravindra
Gopal, Lingam
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Mohan, E. Ravindra
Gopal, Lingam
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description Blind eyes can harbor a choroidal melanoma. We report a case of uveal melanoma presenting as staphyloma and complicated cataract in a 45-year-old female. The left eye was blind for six months. She underwent comprehensive ocular examination but fundus examination was precluded due to total cataract. The ultrasound of the eye showed a large mass filling the superior, nasal and inferonasal vitreous cavity with high surface reflectivity and low to moderate internal reflectivity. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) confirmed the diagnosis of choroidal melanoma. The patient underwent extended enucleation and histopathology was consistent with uveal melanoma.
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spelling pubmed-26834302009-05-27 Uveal melanoma presenting as cataract and staphyloma Khetan, Vikas Gupta, Kshanada Mohan, E. Ravindra Gopal, Lingam Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications Blind eyes can harbor a choroidal melanoma. We report a case of uveal melanoma presenting as staphyloma and complicated cataract in a 45-year-old female. The left eye was blind for six months. She underwent comprehensive ocular examination but fundus examination was precluded due to total cataract. The ultrasound of the eye showed a large mass filling the superior, nasal and inferonasal vitreous cavity with high surface reflectivity and low to moderate internal reflectivity. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) confirmed the diagnosis of choroidal melanoma. The patient underwent extended enucleation and histopathology was consistent with uveal melanoma. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2683430/ /pubmed/19384018 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.49398 Text en © Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Khetan, Vikas
Gupta, Kshanada
Mohan, E. Ravindra
Gopal, Lingam
Uveal melanoma presenting as cataract and staphyloma
title Uveal melanoma presenting as cataract and staphyloma
title_full Uveal melanoma presenting as cataract and staphyloma
title_fullStr Uveal melanoma presenting as cataract and staphyloma
title_full_unstemmed Uveal melanoma presenting as cataract and staphyloma
title_short Uveal melanoma presenting as cataract and staphyloma
title_sort uveal melanoma presenting as cataract and staphyloma
topic Brief Communications
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2683430/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19384018
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.49398
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