title: [Epibulbar superficial spreading melanoma (author's transl)].
abstract: A report rarely a case of superficial spreading melanoma of the conjunctiva bulbi in a 40-year-old woman. As this kind of tumor is very found at this site, the unusual localisation rendered the differential diagnosis more difficult and delayed the radical operative therapy. After orbitectomy the patient has been free of local metastatic deposits for two years. She is fully rehabilitated by a good epithetis. The course of diagnosis in our case illustrates the necessity of uniform application of the nomenclature of cutaneous forms of melanomas and naevi in ophthalmology.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003228:Conjunctiva; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005134:Eye Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology*
vernacular_title: Epibulbäres superfiziell spreitendes Melanom.