Chorioretinal foreign body simulating malignant melanoma

Am J Ophthalmol. 1981 Aug;92(2):202-5. doi: 10.1016/0002-9394(81)90771-6.

Abstract

A 37-year-old man underwent an enucleation of his left eye because of a lesion that demonstrated the clinical and fluorescein angiographic characteristics of a malignant melanoma. Histologic examination of the eye disclosed a chorioretinal inflammatory mass caused by refractile crystalline material.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Choroid Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Crystallization
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Eye Foreign Bodies / diagnosis*
  • Eye Foreign Bodies / pathology
  • Eye Foreign Bodies / surgery
  • Fluorescein Angiography
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Melanoma / diagnosis*
  • Microscopy, Electron, Scanning
  • Microscopy, Polarization
  • Uveal Neoplasms / diagnosis*