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Seymour Brownstein, MD; Hamidreza Faraji, MD; W. Bruce Jackson, MD; Ramon L. Font, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 2006;124:1190-1193.

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Conjunctival melanoma is a disease of middle-aged and elderly persons, with very few cases reported in children.^1-3 In children, pigmented conjunctival lesions are predominantly nevi, and in rare cases, malignant transformation may occur.^3-4 We report 2 cases of conjunctival melanoma in children younger than 10 years.

Report of Cases

Case 1

A 9-year-old white girl underwent excision of a small, rapidly growing, black pigmented lesion of the inferior palpebral conjunctiva and the adjacent margin of the right lower eyelid. The original histopathologic diagnosis was an active junctional nevus of the conjunctiva and eyelid margin. The lesion recurred 3 years later and was excised by a dermatologist who did not send the specimen for histopathologic examination. Two years later, the pigmented lesion again recurred and was treated by a large-wedge eyelid resection, with an initial histopathologic diagnosis of active compound nevus.

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