XORİOİDAL MELANOMANIN ENUKLEASİYASINDAN SONRAKI RESİDİV (KLİNİKİ HAL)

Abstract

SUMMARY

Intraocular melanoma is a rare but potentially deadly malignant disease which may lead to the late recurrences,
distant metastasis and even secondary melanoma. In the article there presented a clinical case of 69 years-old
woman who had undergone the enucleation of left eye for a left ciliary body melanoma 10 years ago. 7 years later
she developed the liver metastasis. She received metastasectomy and 7 cycles of temozolamid. Then the patient
complaints about discomfort in left stump. There was detected hard yellow mass in the left conjunctiva which was
the histopathologically proven to be melanoma recurrence. We conclude that a high index of suspicion should be
maintained for distant and local metastasis of uveal melanoma even after years from initial treatment and cure of
the disease.