A Case of Unsuspected Malignant Melanoma of the Choroid.

Kwon, Kwang Young; Lee, Yong Min; Lee, Kyung Wha

Case Report

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1986;27(4):667-673.
Published online April 1, 1986.

A Case of Unsuspected Malignant Melanoma of the Choroid.

Kwang Young Kwon, Yong Min Lee, Kyung Wha Lee

Department of Ophthalmology, Han Gang Sung Shim Hospital, College of Medicine, Hallym University, Korea.

적출안에서 발견된 맥락막 악성흑색종 1예

이경화(Kyung Hwa Lee),권광영(Kwang Young Kwon),이용민(Yong Min Lee)

Abstract

A 36-year-old female patient had suffered from left sided decreasing visual acuity, ocular pain and headache since 6 months before admission. We performed enucleation of the left eyeball under the clinical diagnosis of the secondary glaucoma and obtained the histopathological diagnosis of malignant melanoma of the choroid(epitheloid type).

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