title: Metastatic tapioca iris melanoma.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005134:Eye Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007498:Iris / Q000473:pathology*; D007500:Iritis / Q000150:complications*; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008545:Melanoma / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D014603:Uveal Diseases / Q000473:pathology