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. 2022 Nov;70(11):3764.
doi: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_2173_22.

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Mrittika Sen  1 , Sumeet T Lahane  1 , Santosh G Honavar  2
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Seek, and ye shall find!

Mrittika Sen et al. Indian J Ophthalmol. 2022 Nov.
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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
40-year-old male with unilateral cataract with a ciliochoroidal melanoma. OD showing sentinel vessel, scleral pigment, peripheral iris pigmentation and cataract (a). Ultrasound B-scan demonstrating a large ciliary body tumor with choroidal extension (b), and UBM showing the ciliary body tumor (c). Histopathology of the enucleated eye showing epithelioid tumor cells with vesicular nuclei and prominent nucleoli arranged in islands and nests with brownish, granular melanin pigment (HE, X400). Parts of the tumor showed spindle-B cells (d)
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