PURPOSE: To report a case of malignant transformation of an optic disk melanocytoma with a second melanocytoma in the ciliary body. METHODS: Clinical data including visual acuity, visual fields, color fundus photographs, fluorescein angiogram, and ultrasonogram and histopathologic studies of this case were reviewed. RESULTS: The right eye of a 65-year-old white woman was diagnosed with melanocytoma of the optic nerve. Four years later, the tumor became significantly larger. The best-corrected visual acuity declined from 20/40 to counting fingers and the size of the tumor increased fourfold in 2 years. The right globe was enucleated. Histopathologic studies demonstrated moderately pigmented spindle-B malignant melanoma cells adjacent to and within a population of large, polyhedral, heavily pigmented melanocytoma cells that extended to the lamina cribrosa and optic nerve. There was also a deeply pigmented melanocytoma in the ciliary body. CONCLUSION: This is a rare case of malignant melanoma transformed from an optic disk melanocytoma. Periodic follow-up of the patient with optic disk melanocytoma is necessary.
PURPOSE: To report a case of malignant transformation of an optic disk melanocytoma with a second melanocytoma in the ciliary body. METHODS: Clinical data including visual acuity, visual fields, color fundus photographs, fluorescein angiogram, and ultrasonogram and histopathologic studies of this case were reviewed. RESULTS: The right eye of a 65-year-old white woman was diagnosed with melanocytoma of the optic nerve. Four years later, the tumor became significantly larger. The best-corrected visual acuity declined from 20/40 to counting fingers and the size of the tumor increased fourfold in 2 years. The right globe was enucleated. Histopathologic studies demonstrated moderately pigmented spindle-B malignant melanoma cells adjacent to and within a population of large, polyhedral, heavily pigmented melanocytoma cells that extended to the lamina cribrosa and optic nerve. There was also a deeply pigmented melanocytoma in the ciliary body. CONCLUSION: This is a rare case of malignant melanoma transformed from an optic disk melanocytoma. Periodic follow-up of the patient with optic disk melanocytoma is necessary.
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