Nevus of iris

Known as: Eye freckle, Iris nevus, Nevus of the Iris

A benign neoplasm that arises from the iris and is composed of melanocytes. Only a small percentage of cases progress to iris melanoma.

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2016

Bilateral acute depigmentation of the iris is a new condition characterized by pigment dispersion in the anterior chamber, iris…

2001

BACKGROUND Ferry et al. (8) showed that 35 % of eyes which have been enucleated because of a clinically suspected malignant iris…

1989

We studied by light and electron microscopy the diffuse iris nevus of an eye in a 16-year-old patient with oculodermal…

1989

A 67-year-old woman examined 12 months following extracapsular cataract extraction had a massive pseudophakic pigment dispersion…

1985

A 21-year-old woman had a progressively enlarging pigmented tumor of the iris and anterior chamber angle in the right eye…

1981

Uncontrolled unilateral glaucoma developed in the right eye of a 24-year-old woman. It was caused by the diffuse growth of a…

1981

1980

: In a patient with the clinical features of the iris nevus syndrome who was treated for glaucoma a cataract developed later. The…

1980

In a patient with the clinical features of the iris nevus syndrome who was treated for glaucoma a cataract developed later. The…

1976

Late failure of a filtering cicatrix occurred in a patient who had had surgery to control the glaucoma associated with the iris…