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[Melanoma of the eyelid margin: clinical management and oncopathologic study]
Arrevola Velasco L1, Domingo Gordo B, Acero Peña A
1Instituto Oftálmico, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, España.
Archivos De La Sociedad Espanola De Oftalmologia
|January 11, 2001
Abstract
Objective/Methods:
A 57 year-old male patient with a very pigmented tumor of the margin of the upper lid and two months of evolution is presented. After its excision and histopathological study, the diagnose was nodular melanoma.
Results/Conclusions:
We expose the treatment and clinical management of this unfrequent pathology. Different clinical features and other locations in the eyelid are discussed regarding the prognosis.