Leiomyoma of the iris.
A 77-year-old white woman presented with a lightly pigmented iris lesion assumed clinically to be an iris melanoma. Light microscopy of the excised tumour showed it to be a spindle-cell tumour. Electron microscopy confirmed the diagnosis of leiomyoma of the iris.
Jellie
H G
HG
Ivey Institute of Ophthalmology, Victoria Hospital, London, Ont.
Gonder
J R
JR
Willis
N R
NR
Green
L
L
Tokarewicz
A C
AC
D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D005260:Female; D006068:Gonioscopy; D006801:Humans; D007429:Intraocular Pressure; D007499:Iris Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D014604:Uveal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000648:ultrastructure