Necrotic choroidal melanoma masquerading as scleritis

We report a case of a patient who presented with symptoms of acute onset scleritis in the left eye but was found to have an underlying necrotic choroidal melanoma. Asymptomatic choroidal melanoma can undergo spontaneous necrosis and manifest as severe scleritis and should be considered as an importa...

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Autores principales: Putri, Christine A, Salvi, Sachin M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7690531/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32823448
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_271_20
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spelling pubmed-76905312020-12-30 Necrotic choroidal melanoma masquerading as scleritis Putri, Christine A Salvi, Sachin M Indian J Ophthalmol Case Reports We report a case of a patient who presented with symptoms of acute onset scleritis in the left eye but was found to have an underlying necrotic choroidal melanoma. Asymptomatic choroidal melanoma can undergo spontaneous necrosis and manifest as severe scleritis and should be considered as an important differential. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-09 2020-08-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7690531/ /pubmed/32823448 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_271_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Indian Journal of Ophthalmology 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 Necrotic choroidal melanoma masquerading as scleritis
title_full Necrotic choroidal melanoma masquerading as scleritis
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title_full_unstemmed Necrotic choroidal melanoma masquerading as scleritis
title_short Necrotic choroidal melanoma masquerading as scleritis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7690531/
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