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Hyphema from Iris Melanocytoma.

Neel D Pasricha¹, Michael I Seider^1,2,3

¹Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.

Ocular Oncology and Pathology

|August 2, 2019

Summary

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A rare iris melanocytoma in a young woman caused recurrent hyphema, or bleeding in the eye. This presentation is unusual as hyphema has not been previously associated with this type of eye tumor.

Keywords:

Hyphema Iris melanocytoma Ocular oncology

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Oncology
Medical Imaging

Background:

Iris melanocytoma is a benign pigmented tumor of the iris.
It typically presents without symptoms and is often discovered during routine eye examinations.
Recurrent hyphema is a rare complication in ocular oncology.

Observation:

A young female patient presented with a classic iris melanocytoma.
The patient experienced recurrent, spontaneous hyphema.
Multimodal imaging was utilized to assess the ocular structures.

Findings:

The iris melanocytoma was confirmed through multimodal imaging.
The tumor showed no evidence of growth during the observation period.
The occurrence of hyphema associated with iris melanocytoma is a novel finding.

Implications:

This case expands the known clinical spectrum of iris melanocytoma.
It highlights the importance of considering hyphema in the differential diagnosis of unexplained eye bleeding, even in the presence of a known iris melanocytoma.
Further research is warranted to understand the mechanism linking iris melanocytoma and hyphema.