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Arch Ophthalmol. 2003;121:1791-1794.

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Intraocular melanocytoma is an uncommon tumor. To our knowledge, in none of the cases reported to date, either individually or in case series, has this tumor been associated with bone formation. We report 2 such cases.

Report of Cases.

Case 1. A 14-year-old white girl had pain in her left eye of 5 weeks' duration. There was no history of ocular trauma or disease. Her visual acuity was 20/60 OS, and the intraocular pressure was 11 mm Hg. There was no evidence of glaucoma or uveitis. The lens was displaced inferonasally by a superotemporal ciliary body mass.

Local resection of this mass was performed with deep scleral lamellar dissection. Postoperatively, the visual acuity was 20/60 OS; 6 months later, it had decreased to 20/200 OS because of ocular hypotony, macular edema, and epimacular membrane formation. The hypotony resolved with a short course of systemic steroids. At the last follow-up visit (28 months . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Paul Hiscott, MD
Liverpool, England

R. Jean Campbell, MD; Dennis M. Robertson, MD
Rochester, Minn

Bertil Damato, MD
Liverpool

Corresponding author: R. Jean Campbell, MD, Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905.

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