Early satellite metastatic uveal melanoma to the lower eyelid--the first report.
OBJECTIVE
To present a unique case of an early satellite metastatic uveal melanoma to the ipsilateral lower eyelid.


METHODS
Retrospective review of the medical records of a single patient.


RESULTS
A 71-year-old white male developed a fast growing, painless, solitary, subcutaneous, nodular mass in the medial half of his right lower eyelid 13 months after enucleation of the right eye for inferonasally located uveal melanoma of the spindle cell type. Microscopically excised eyelid tumor proved to be malignant melanoma of the epitheloid type. The patient underwent complete systemic examination including positron emission tomography that ruled out the primary cutaneous or visceral melanoma.


CONCLUSIONS
The paper is, according to our knowledge, the first documented case of an early satellite metastatic uveal melanoma to the lower eyelid in the patient with no evidence of further metastases.
University Eye Clinic, University Hospital Sveti Duh, Sveti Duh 64, Zagreb, Croatia. belabjer@kbsd.hr
Biljana Kuzmanović
BK
Elabjer
Daliborka
D
Miletić
Mladen
M
Bušić
Borna
B
Sarić
Zvonko
Z
Petrović
Tatjana
T
Bradetić
Damir
D
Bosnar
D000368:Aged; D005142:Eyelid Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D014604:Uveal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D000098943:Uveal Melanoma