Background/aim: Ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM) is an important tool for assessing anterior segment pathology. This study sought to evaluate UBM in the management of anterior segment tumours. Methods: Retrospective analysis of medical records of consecutive patients referred to the ocular oncology unit, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), for suspected anterior segment tumours from 19...

BACKGROUND/AIM Ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM) is an important tool for assessing anterior segment pathology. This study sought to evaluate UBM in the management of anterior segment tumours. METHODS Retrospective analysis of medical records of consecutive patients referred to the ocular oncology unit, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), for suspected anterior segment tumours from 19...

A 44-year-old man was referred to our hospital for ciliary body tumor management. A uveal melanoma in the left eye without systemic metastasis was our impression after a series of examinations. We treated this patient with eyewall resection under local anesthesia. Eyewall resection was previously regarded as a complicated procedure that should be performed under general anesthesia. Our surgery ...

THE literature on malignant melanoma of the uveal tract is extensive but case reports of multiple malignant tumours of this type are infrequent. Freckles and naevi are present in approximately 50 per cent. of normal eyes and "are even more frequent and larger in eyes which also contain malignant melanoma of the uveal tract" (Hogan and Zimmerman, 1962). According to Reese (1956), when the malign...

purpose: to report a case of ciliary body medulloepithelioma presenting as granulomatous uveitis.   patient and finding: a 3-year-old girl presented with chronic granulomatous anterior uveitis in the right eye following unilateral cataract extraction and iol implantation which was unresponsive to topical steroids and intra-vitreal injection of vancomycin and triamcinolone acetonide. one month l...