title: Pediatric choroidal melanoma in a 13-year-old girl--a clinical masquerade.
abstract: Ocular melanoma is the most common primary ocular malignancy, of which uveal melanomas comprise up to 60%; however, uveal melanoma is rare in children. We present the case of a 13-year-old girl with unilateral choroidal mass initially thought to be a traumatic choroidal hematoma, later clinically suspicious for medulloepithelioma, but histologically proven to be melanoma.
authors.affiliation: City Eye Centre, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. obifong@gmail.com
authors.forename: Anthony
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fong
authors.forename: Lawrence
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Glasson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002830:Choroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D015353:Eye Enucleation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007429:Intraocular Pressure; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D014792:Visual Acuity