Orbital metastasis from cutaneous malignant melanoma.
Orbital metastasis is a rare presenting sign of a cutaneous malignant melanoma. Fewer than 30 cases of orbital metastases have been published so far. A 69-year-old man was remitted to our clinic for removal of an orbital tumour verified with CT. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy revealed the tumour to be a metastasis from a cutaneous malignant melanoma diagnosed 4 years earlier. The patient died 3 months after detection of the orbital metastatic tumour. This case illustrates the value of simple fine-needle aspiration biopsy in the diagnosis of orbital tumours.
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Helsinki, Finland.
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D000368:Aged; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma; D009918:Orbital Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms