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PURPOSE To investigate the relationship between progression to hepatic metastasis and tumor-infiltrating macrophages and microcirculation attributes in uveal melanoma, a cancer that almost invariably disseminates hematogenously to the liver. METHODS A cross-sectional histopathologic analysis of 48 hepatic metastases and corresponding primary choroidal and ciliary body melanomas was conducted,...

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The ciliary body is a circular structure ( as appears in coronal section and triangular in cross section) forming a complete ring which is continuos anteriorly with the iris periphery and posteriorly with the choroid. It measures about 6mm wide (6.5-mm on temporal side and 5.5-mm on the nasal side) and extends forward to the scleral spur and backward to the ora serrata of the retina. It present...

Adenoma of the non-pigmented epithelium of the ciliary body (ANPCE) is a relatively uncommon lesion usually presenting in the non-pigmented epithelium of the ciliary body, which belongs to the neuroectodermal origin. Histologically, this tumor consisted of sheets, cords, and tubules occasionally forming glandular configurations. The cells of the tumor had abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm with ro...

Ciliary compartmentalization plays pivotal roles in ciliogenesis and in various signaling pathways. Here we describe a structure at the ciliary base that appears to have all the features required for compartmentalization and which we thus call the "ciliary partitioning system" (CPS). This complex consists of the terminal plate, which serves as a cytosolic "ciliary pore complex" (CPC), and a mem...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The purpose of this study was to examine the clinical presentations and pathological features of spontaneously necrotic choroidal melanomas. METHODS The clinical and histological features of patients who underwent enucleation for uveal melanoma from 1989 to 2012 at Emory University and were found to have spontaneously necrotic choroidal melanomas were retrospectively analyzed....