title: [Contralateral orbital metastasis of a malignant choroid melanoma].
abstract: Nine years after enucleation of the right eye because of a choroidal melanoma a choroidal melanoma a metastasis of the melanoma developed in the left orbit. Histologically, the two tumors were identical spindle-cell B melanomas. No other primary tumors or metastases were found. This is only the third case of this rare form of metastasization ever reported.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002830:Choroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D009918:Orbital Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*
vernacular_title: Orbitametastase eines malignen Aderhautmelanoms der anderen Seite.