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Conjunctival melanoma is rare, accounting for just 2% of ocular malignancies.1 We present an unusual case of conjunctival melanoma with subsequent metastasis to the parotid gland. A diagnosis was made after fine needle aspiration cytology of the parotid gland was performed in light of the previous history.
Case report
A 79 year old white man presented to the eye clinic in September 1999. He had been noted 3 years previously to have a small inclusion cyst of the bulbar conjunctiva in his right eye, which he complained had increased in size and was becoming red and sore. Examination showed an inflamed pedunculated lesion 1 cm in diameter arising from the nasal limbal conjunctiva (Fig 1). The lesion was granulomatous and amelanotic. There was adjacent corneal opacity. …