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Metastasis of Cutaneous Malignent Melanoma into Vitreous

Metastasis of Cutaneous Malignent Melanoma into Vitreous
Brown vitreous floaters 9 years after removal of a cutaneous malignant melanoma and multiple metastases elsewhere. Vitreous aspirate shows pigmented cells with prominent nucleoli (malignant cells) and other cells with abundant cytoplasm filled with pigment (macrophages). ( G.O.H. Naumann)
J. Sahel, Strasbourg, France, EOPS meeting 1991
C79.2
Vitreous -> Opacities -> Metastasis
vitreous
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