Chorioretinal foreign body simulating malignant melanoma.
A 37-year-old man underwent an enucleation of his left eye because of a lesion that demonstrated the clinical and fluorescein angiographic characteristics of a malignant melanoma. Histologic examination of the eye disclosed a chorioretinal inflammatory mass caused by refractile crystalline material.
D000328:Adult; D002830:Choroid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D003460:Crystallization; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005129:Eye Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D008859:Microscopy, Polarization; D014604:Uveal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*