title: Primary choroidal and cutaneous melanomas, bilateral choroidal melanomas, and familial occurrence of melanomas.
abstract: The medical history of a patient with a familial atypical multiple more melanoma syndrome revealed a combination of rare findings: occurrence of a melanoma in both eyes, development of 3 separate skin melanomas, and occurrence of other malignancies in the family. Another patient developed a choroidal and a skin melanoma, but there were no known malignancies in the family. A third patient with a choroidal melanoma had a mother with an ethmoidal melanoma.
mesh_terms: D002830:Choroid Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000235:genetics*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000235:genetics*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics*