Traumatic lens subluxation presenting as pseudomelanoma

Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging Retina. 2014 Jul-Aug;45(4):328-30. doi: 10.3928/23258160-20140605-02.

Abstract

An 82-year-old white man was referred for a suspected inferior pigmented, choroidal melanoma in his left eye. The patient stated that his left eye had been hit by a tree branch approximately 40 years prior, and he had not been able to see with it since then. Dilated fundus examination revealed a 14 × 8 mm dark, dome-shaped choroidal mass located inferiorly. Transillumination of the eye revealed no defects. Ultrasonography revealed a hollow lesion, consistent with a senile, dark dislocated cataract.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Cataract / diagnosis*
  • Choroid Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Eye Injuries / complications*
  • Humans
  • Lens Subluxation / diagnosis*
  • Male
  • Melanoma / diagnosis*
  • Uveal Neoplasms / diagnosis*

Supplementary concepts

  • Uveal melanoma