Malignant melanoma occurring after evisceration.

Clinical History 1931: The patient (male, aged 53) attended hospital complaining of pain in the left eye. The eye had been practically useless since a cataract had developed after it had been struck by a hockey ball in his youth. The right eye was normal. On examination the left eye showed only poor projection of light, an anterior chamber occupied by the lens, and what appeared to be exudate lying behind this in the vitreous. No note was made of the intra-ocular tension. Kaolin poultices relieved the pain, and the patient was advised that the eye should be enucleated within a month or two; but he did not attend again for 5 years.