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Cataract Associated with Ciliary Body Melanoma A patient with recently diagnosed ciliary body melanoma was referred to the BPEI glaucoma service for cataract evaluation. Examination revealed CF vision, a dense white cataract, and ciliary body melanoma that had extended into the iris. The patient ha…

Iris cyst of right and left eye.

Iris Pigment Epithelial Cysts A patient with a history of amblyopia and coloboma presented with decreased vision in both eyes over the past 2 years. Slit lamp exam was notable for pigmented lesions prolapsing through pupil and adhering to posterior cornea in both eyes. The patient sought surgical i…

Intraocular Foreign Body A patient with past ocular history of remote trauma, unilateral retinal detachment repair, and cataract extraction presented with inferior iris pigmentation and chronic corneal edema. He complains of decreased vision, redness, and foreign body sensation. His visual acuity w…

Juvenile Xanthogranuloma Patient presented to the BPEI emergency room with tearing and light sensitivity of the right eye for 1 month. Examination revealed grimace-to-light vision, soft to palpation intraocular pressure, and hyphema. Skin examination revealed yellowish raised skin lesions on the ne…

Ocular Metastatic Cutaneous Melanoma A patient with metastatic cutaneous melanoma to the eye was referred to BPEI glaucoma service for elevated IOP. Examination revealed 20/125 vision and IOP 31 mmHg on multiple glaucoma drops. Gonioscopy revealed a diffuse melanomatous membrane and pigment accumul…

Multimodal imaging of a patient with ciliochoroidal melanoma with extraocular extension associated with sympathetic ophthalmia before and after treatment.

Ciliochoroidal Melanoma with Extraocular Extension Complicated by Sympathetic Ophthalmia A patient presented with a pigmented conjunctival lesion in the right eye of insidious onset and progressive course. She was found to have a ciliochoroidal melanoma with extraocular extension and underwent exci…

Fundus photo of a patient showing a choroidal melanocytic lesion of the macula with subretinal fluid and orange pigment. The patient has a history of metastatic cutaneous melanoma.

Choroidal Metastases from Cutaneous Melanoma A patient with history of cutaneous melanoma presents with worsening vision of the right eye over a period of a few weeks. His exam was notable for visual acuity of 20/40 in the right eye and 20/25 in the left eye. Intraocular pressure was 18 in both eye…

Diffuse Iris Melanoma A patient presented for evaluation of multiple melanocytic lesions of the right iris that were noticed a few months prior. She was found to have a visual acuity of 20/25 in the right eye and 20/20 in the left eye, with intraocular pressures of 19mmHg in both eyes. Slit lamp ex…

Melanocytoma with Vitreous Seeding A patient with 7 years of blurry vision in the right eye presents to clinic for evaluation. He reports no recent acute changes in vision and no precipitating events in the past. He noticed the blurry vision incidentally while driving when he covered his left eye. …

Primary Uveal Melanoma, Left Eye A 30-year-old Hispanic female with a history of thyroid disease presented to the Bascom Palmer ER with complaints of blurry vision and eye strain in the left eye while reading for a 1-month duration. Her last eye exam was a decade ago and was normal. She was diagnos…

Group E retinoblastoma

Retinal Capillary Hemangioblastoma in Von-Hippel Lindau Syndrome A 40-year-old male with family history of renal cell carcinoma and history of neurosurgical excision of cerebellar hemangioblastoma presents for routine ophthalmic examination. Vision is 20/20 in both eyes. Fundus examination reveals …

Juvenile X-linked Retinoschisis A pediatric patient with a past medical history of Kawasaki disease presents for retinal evaluation of reported vitreous hemorrhage in the right eye and retinal detachment in the left eye. The visual acuity was 20/200 in the right eye and 20/800 in the left eye. The …

Coats Disease An infant presented with suspected retinoblastoma after undergoing an exam under anesthesia (EUA) with an outside provider. On repeat exam under anesthesia, there were no mass lesions identified on indirect exam or ultrasound. Indirect exam revealed powdery yellow exudative changes an…

Coats' Disease with Secondary Pseudoangiomatous Acquired Retinal Gliosis A healthy 6-year-old female was referred after she failed her school vision screening in the right eye. Exam revealed a visual acuity of count fingers (CF) at 1 foot in the right eye. Slit lamp examination was unremarkable. Fu…

Combined Hamartoma of the Retina and Retinal Pigment Epithelium A 19-month-old girl with an unremarkable prenatal and infantile history presented with esotropia of the left eye and was found to have a vascularized mass concerning for retinoblastoma. Examination under anesthesia revealed a charcoal …

Sturge-Weber Syndrome A child was born with an extensive, bilateral, flat, red facial skin lesion that was initially flat and barely noticeable but over time has grown and become thicker and a deeper red color. He was born at term to a healthy mother, had no other lesions on his body, no other symp…