title: Choroidal melanoma in a patient with congenital bilateral chorioretinal coloboma: a case report of an extremely rare association of ocular comorbities.
abstract: Clinicopathologic findings of a 44-year-old Caucasian male who presented with a congenital bilateral chorioretinal coloboma and later developed a large choroidal melanoma in his best seeing eye. The eye containing the malignant tumor was enucleated and the histopathologic findings confirmed the clinical diagnosis of choroidal melanoma, and in this case, an epithelioid cell type.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. jbfortes@cursohbo.com.br
authors.forename: João Borges
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Fortes Filho
authors.forename: Andrea Cunha
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Magnani
authors.forename: Ana Paula
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Tonietto
authors.forename: Fernanda Verçoza
authors.initials: FV
authors.lastname: Lovato
authors.forename: Humberto
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lubisco Filho
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002830:Choroid Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D003103:Coloboma / Q000150:complications*; D005584:Fovea Centralis / Q000002:abnormalities*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D009900:Optic Nerve / Q000002:abnormalities*