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By Lancaster Course in Ophthalmology
1980 - Uploaded on Mar 4, 2019.
- Last modified by Caroline Bozell on Mar 14, 2019.
- Rating
- Appears in
- Unit 14 Melanomas of the Eyes
- Condition/keywords
- melanoma, eosinophilic, cytoplasm
- Description
- Epithelioid melanomas are composed of noncohesive, large cells and round nuclei and prominent nucleoli; abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm and well-demarcated cell borders are present. This is the rarest type (3 percent) of ciliary and choroidal melanomas.