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Ehud Zamir, MD; Ronald E. Smith, MD; Robert F. See, MD; Samuel C. Yiu, MD; Michael Burnstine, MD; Narsing A. Rao, MD
Los Angeles, Calif

Arch Ophthalmol. 2002;120:1106-1107.

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A 61-YEAR-OLD Hispanic woman was referred for evaluation and treatment of an intraocular tumor in her left eye. Sixteen months earlier, a reportedly benign nasal limbal lesion was resected from this eye in Mexico. The left eye revealed a diffuse, white, and friable nasal conjunctival tumor extending into the anterior chamber (Figure 1). Excisional biopsy revealed a squamous cell carcinoma. A computed tomography scan showed that the tumor invaded the anterior nasal orbit. The left orbit was exenterated, and pathological examination revealed a well-differentiated squamous cell carcinoma of the conjunctiva invading the corneal stroma, anterior chamber angle, iris, and ciliary body (Figure 2 and Figure 3).

Figure appears in full text version. Figure 1. A, The left eye revealing a diffuse, nasal conjunctival tumor. The anterior chamber is invaded by . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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