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Simultaneous choroidal melanoma and rhegmatogenous retinal detachment
Author(s) -
Wilson Graham A,
Clemett Richard S
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
clinical and experimental ophthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.3
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1442-9071
pISSN - 1442-6404
DOI - 10.1046/j.1442-9071.2001.d01-11.x
Subject(s) - medicine , retinal detachment , ophthalmology , quadrant (abdomen) , tears , retinal , surgery
A case is reported of a 30‐year‐old man who presented with the unusual combination of a unilateral inferonasal choroidal melanoma and an unassociated rhegmatogenous retinal detachment attributable to a large horseshoe tear in the superotemporal quadrant. Over 20 cases of simultaneous occurrence of these two phenomena have now been reported but this patient appears to be the youngest. The reports of this uncommon association are reviewed.