title: "Posterior fossa lesion 45 years after ocular trauma".
abstract: We describe a patient who developed an isolated brain metastasis four years after his right eye was treated for conjunctival melanoma by excision and local chemotherapy. He had a history of ipsilateral ocular trauma by coal stuff while working in a mining industry. Conjunctival melanoma represents only 1.6% of all non-cutaneous melanoma. Metastasis of this kind of neoplasm to brain is a rare event, especially without evidence of prior or concurrent regional lymph node involvement.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain.
authors.forename: Julio César
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Gutiérrez Morales
authors.forename: Sandra Eugenia
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Gutiérrez Morales
authors.forename: Aurora Astudillo
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: González
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003228:Conjunctiva / Q000473:pathology; D003388:Cranial Fossa, Posterior / Q000473:pathology*; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods