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A Report of a Case in a 9-Year-Old Girl

Hobart A. Lerner, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 1970;84(6):754-757.

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MALIGNANT melanoma of the iris in children is a rare entity. In 21 cases of malignant melanoma of the iris collected between 1948 and 1957, Cleasby¹ reported one in an 8-year-old, and this was the only case in his series under the age of 28 years. Duke and Dunn,² in reviewing 28 iris malignant melanomas seen at the Wilmer Institute from 1925 to 1956, noted only three under the age of 20 years, the youngest being 12 years old. In 1962, Apt³ analyzed 46 cases of iris malignant melanoma from the Registry of Ophthalmic Pathology of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. He noted that there were 19 under the age of 20 years, of which five were under 10 years and 14 from 10 to 19 years. In 1961, Von Burki⁴ reported a case in an infant, and the same year Lunder and Landolt⁵ . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Rochester, NY

From the Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, Genesee Hospital, and the Division of Ophthalmology of the Department of Surgery, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 2, 1969.

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