rare case of choroidal malignant melanoma in Pakistan

ABSTRACT

Malignant melanoma of the choroids is very rare in Pakistan is A 43-year-old woman from Gujranwala had uneventful right extracapsular cataract extraction on January 20, 1993. On postoperative examination a retinal detachment was found, the further evaluation of which suggested the presence of a choroidal malignant melanoma of the inferoposterior fundus. The eye was enucleated on January 27, 1993, and the diagnosis confirmed by histopathology studies. No systemic or local metastases were found after a follow-up of 18 months. [Pakistan Journal of Ophthalmology 1079-81, October, 1994.]