Black tears (melanodacryorrhea) from uveal melanoma

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 126, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1166-1168

  Ghassemi, Fariba ^b   Shields, Carol L ^b   Palamar, Melis ^b   Eagle Jr , Ralph C ^b   Shields, Jerry A ^a  

^a WILLS EYE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CASE REPORT; CATARACT; HUMAN; LACRIMATION; LACRIMATION DISORDER; LETTER; MALE; MELANOCYTOSIS; MELANODACRYORRHEA; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND; UVEA MELANOMA; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; CONJUNCTIVAL NEOPLASMS; EYE ENUCLEATION; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LACRIMAL APPARATUS DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MELANOMA; MELANOSIS; NECROSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; TEARS; UVEAL NEOPLASMS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 49449109413     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 00039950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.126.8.1166     Document Type: Letter

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