PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Zakka, K A
AU  - Foos, R Y
AU  - Sulit, H
TI  - Metastatic tapioca iris melanoma.
AID  - 10.1136/bjo.63.11.744
DP  - 1979 Nov 01
TA  - British Journal of Ophthalmology
PG  - 744--749
VI  - 63
IP  - 11
4099  - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/63/11/744.short
4100  - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/63/11/744.full
SO  - Br J Ophthalmol1979 Nov 01; 63
AB  - A case of metastatic tapioca melanoma of the iris in a 12-year-old girl is reported. The patient had heterochromia, a red painful eye, and was treated for iritis with secondary glaucoma. In the course of 5 months iris lesions with the clinical appearance of tapioca pudding developed, and biopsy disclosed a melanoma. The eye was immediately enucleated, and pathological examination showed a melanoma with predominantly epithelioid-type cells which had infiltrated the angle, the posterior chamber, and the surgical wounds. Conjunctival extension was noted 10 months after enucleation, and regional lymph node metastases were found 4 months later. Previously reported cases are reviewed and compared with the present case.