Choroidal malignant melanoma with orbital invasion and liver metastases

Choroidal (uveal) malignant melanoma is a neoplasia, one of the most frequent in ocular pathology. His occurrence in young people is extremely rare. The most frequently localization is at the posterior uvea. Extensive extra-ocular extension may be present, with the invasion of anatomical orbital structures. Metastatic sites of uveal melanoma include liver, lung, bone, kidney and brain. It is the case of a male patient, 47 yr. old, with a black pigmentation tumor of the left eye, protrusive outside the orbit, with slow clinical development (over 3.5 years), admitted in our hospital for a very severe headache. An…