Cutaneous malignant melanoma metastatic to the choroid

C. M. Greven, M. M. Slusher, C. Stanton and R. P. Yeatts
Department of Ophthalmology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27103.

Cutaneous malignant melanoma metastatic to the eye is a well-documented occurrence in the ophthalmic literature. Typically, ocular metastatic disease occurs concomitantly with or following the documentation of disseminated metastases. We present the clinical and histopathologic findings in a 62-year-old man whose first manifestation of metastatic cutaneous melanoma was his choroidal lesion.