Contrary to popular belief, the fact that this patient’s lesion was not pigmented does not rule out the possibility of it being a conjunctival melanoma. Conjunctival melanomas have a 5-year ...

There was a prominent conjunctival feeder vessel inferonasally supplying the lesion (Figure 2). On the superficial aspect of the lesion medially, there was 0.8 mm of brown pigment. There was no ...

Clinically, pigmented lesions were observed in 29 cases (69 ... Dysplastic changes were observed in the lower and middle thirds of the conjunctival epithelial thickness (Figure 8a and b).

A conjunctival nevus is a pigmented lesion on the white part of the eye, known as the conjunctiva. These nevi make up more than half of all conjunctival lesions and usually appear in childhood.

Patients with dark skin pigmentation tend to have darker colored sclera and conjunctiva; this is a normal variant called racial pigmentation. A primary acquired melanosis is a pigmented lesion ...

The patient was otherwise healthy with no travelling history and reported no coincidence between the appearance of conjunctival lesions and tonsillitis. On ocular examination, the best corrected ...

In vivo confocal microscopy (IVCM) is able to demonstrate the characteristic corneal and conjunctival anatomy in vivo at the cellular level. Normal corneal innervation and cell distribution ...

According to Robin Peña of Medium, Jordan might be suffering from a form of melanosis, which is a conjunctival pigmented lesion. Specifially, the Hall of Fame guard has racial melanosis.

This large, year-long registry study conducted in the U.S. included 90 providers across 53 dermatology offices and assessed 3,418 pigmented lesions clinically suspicious for melanoma using the PLA.

By incorporating the Pigmented Lesion Assay (“PLA”) into the current care pathway of assessing pigmented skin lesions or moles suspicious for melanoma, the study highlights the potential ...