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LYNN D. McGLYNN, M.D.; ROBERT H. RUPP, M.D.

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1960;63(2):313-314.

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Leukoplakia is a precancerous lesion usually associated with the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitalia. In the eye, leukoplakia is thought usually to arise from the limbal conjunctiva in the temporal region.¹ In Ash and Wilder's series of 93 limbal epithelial tumors, 13 were considered to be leukoplakia, but presumably, all were primary in the conjunctiva.² The following case is presented because it appears to have arisen in grafted skin 16 years after the treatment for a particularly persistent recurrent pterygium.

A 72-year-old Jamaican woman was referred to the Gorgas Eye Clinic from a local dispensary on Sept. 24, 1957, because her son-in-law was concerned about the change in color of the corner of her left eye during the past three months. She stated that she had a growth removed from the left eye for the first time in 1929. The lesion reportedly recurred within two weeks. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Memphis; Ancon, Canal Zone

From the Eye Service, Gorgas Hospital.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Oct. 21, 1959.

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