Graphite foreign body of the conjunctiva simulating melanoma.
A case of a growing vascular pigmented mass of the conjunctiva resembling a melanoma in a patient with a history of a pencil injury to the eye is presented. The lesion was surgically removed and histopathologically found to be a graphite foreign body granuloma. In the differential diagnosis of enlarging pigmented conjunctival lesions, graphite foreign body granuloma should be considered.
D000328:Adult; D002244:Carbon; D003228:Conjunctiva; D003230:Conjunctival Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005129:Eye Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006108:Graphite; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000175:diagnosis
D002244:Carbon; D006108:Graphite