Intraocular malignant melanoma

A liver metastasis from a choroid melanoma developed 17 years after enucleation of the right eye in a 60-year-old man. Six years after hepatectomy the patient was in good health, despite undergoing repeated surgical excisions for metastatic nodular melanomas in various sites, probably hematogenic melanoma metastases from the primary ocular melanoma. The unusually slow course of disease and the uncommon sites of melanoma recurrences make the Authors formulate the hypothesis of multicentric disease. In this case, surgical treatment of the metastatic tumors allowed the patient long-term survival