PURPOSE To report the clinicopathologic features of an adenoma of the nonpigmented ciliary epithelium. DESIGN Single interventional case report. METHODS. A nonpigmented iris and ciliary body tumor was diagnosed in a 66-year-old woman who complained of blurred vision related to a unilateral cataract. A combined cataract surgery and partial lamellar sclerouvectomy was performed. RESULTS Histo...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether treatment of choroidal melanoma influences survival by correlating age at death, cause of death, age at treatment, and survival predictors. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Prospective cohort study performed at the Liverpool Ocular Oncology Centre, a supraregional, tertiary referral service in England. We included 3072 patients treated for choroidal melanoma fr...

Bilateral diffuse uveal melanocytic hyperplasia (BDUMH) is a rare but well known paraneoplastic syndrome,' associated with systemic malignancy. An essential feature of this syndrome is a preponderantly benign looking cytology of the melanocytic tumours.' We describe the clinical and histopathological features ofBDUMH with active proliferation and bilateral ciliary body malignant melanomas. The ...

Iris and ciliary body melanoma is an aggressive tumor, which, unfortunately, presents symptoms only in advanced stages and is often discovered accidentally during a routine eye examination. There are several treatment options, ranging from in time monitorization in order to observe the tumor's evolution to more aggressive methods such as radiotherapy and enucleation. We present a case of iridoc...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE To report outcomes and toxicity after proton beam radiotherapy for non-peripapillary choroidal and ciliary body melanoma considered unsuitable for other eye-sparing therapies. MATERIALS AND METHODS An existing database of 77 patients with non-peripapillary tumors treated at TRIUMF, Canada, including patient, tumor, and treatment characteristics, was updated with ocular ...

ALTHOUGH comparatively rare, spontaneous cysts of the ciliary body have evoked numerous contributions to the literature. The diagnosis is essentially clinical and differentiation from a melanosarcoma may be very difficult. These cysts were well named pseudo-melanosarcomata by Pagenstecher (1910). Before the report of Fischer (1920), the diagnosis of such cysts had been established only by histo...

The eye’s uveal tract consists of the iris, ciliary body, and choroid. It contains a population of melanocytes. Uveal melanomas develop from melanocytes that reside within the stroma of the choroid, ciliary body or iris. The choroid is the vascular part of the human eye between retina and sclera. Though accurate measurements of the choroidal blood flow is difficult, it is known that choroid is ...