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4061546

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PredicateObject
rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1985-12-9
pubmed:abstractText
A 70-year-old woman who had undergone enucleation of the left eye at the age of 28 years because of complications from an injury to the globe, and in whom a previously unsuspected posterior uveal melanoma was detected after enucleation, had no further problems until 42 years later, when she was discovered to have a liver malignancy of undetermined origin. After six months of chemotherapy, the patient developed a mass in the anophthalmic left orbit. Biopsy of the orbital mass disclosed malignant melanoma, and reexamination of the liver biopsy specimen disclosed similar malignant melanoma cells. The patient had no clinical evidence of a primary melanoma other than the one involving the eye. It is possible that the patient had subclinical melanoma cells in the liver for 40 years. However, another possibility is that the patient had residual melanoma cells in the orbit which eventually metastasized to the liver.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0002-9394
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
100
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
666-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1985
pubmed:articleTitle
Hepatic metastasis and orbital recurrence of uveal melanoma after 42 years.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't