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Metastatic Melanoma Presenting as PCO

Posted By Dr. Ari Weitzner On March 31, 2011 @ 5:14 am In Cataract | Comments Disabled

A truly remarkable case report. A woman presented with pigmented clouding of the posterior capsule causing blurred vision. It turns out this was the first evidence of  metastatic spreading of malignant melanoma (she had the cancer excised off her arm many years prior). This is truly the rarest of rarest of circumstances.


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