Malignant melanoma of conjunctiva: Diagnosis on fine-needle aspiration cytology

Malignant melanoma of conjunctiva is an uncommon malignancy. The diagnosis is suspected clinically and confirmed on pathological examination. We present a case of a 63-year-old female with previous history of pigmented lesion in the right eye and subsequently diagnosed as malignant melanoma of right...

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Autores principales: Kishore, Manjari, Kumar, Vijay, Kaushal, Manju
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6210837/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30498321
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JLP.JLP_43_18
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description Malignant melanoma of conjunctiva is an uncommon malignancy. The diagnosis is suspected clinically and confirmed on pathological examination. We present a case of a 63-year-old female with previous history of pigmented lesion in the right eye and subsequently diagnosed as malignant melanoma of right conjunctiva and cornea on fine-needle aspiration cytology and histopathology.
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spelling pubmed-62108372018-11-29 Malignant melanoma of conjunctiva: Diagnosis on fine-needle aspiration cytology Kishore, Manjari Kumar, Vijay Kaushal, Manju J Lab Physicians Case Report Malignant melanoma of conjunctiva is an uncommon malignancy. The diagnosis is suspected clinically and confirmed on pathological examination. We present a case of a 63-year-old female with previous history of pigmented lesion in the right eye and subsequently diagnosed as malignant melanoma of right conjunctiva and cornea on fine-needle aspiration cytology and histopathology. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6210837/ /pubmed/30498321 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JLP.JLP_43_18 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Journal of Laboratory Physicians http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title Malignant melanoma of conjunctiva: Diagnosis on fine-needle aspiration cytology
title_full Malignant melanoma of conjunctiva: Diagnosis on fine-needle aspiration cytology
title_fullStr Malignant melanoma of conjunctiva: Diagnosis on fine-needle aspiration cytology
title_full_unstemmed Malignant melanoma of conjunctiva: Diagnosis on fine-needle aspiration cytology
title_short Malignant melanoma of conjunctiva: Diagnosis on fine-needle aspiration cytology
title_sort malignant melanoma of conjunctiva: diagnosis on fine-needle aspiration cytology
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6210837/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30498321
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