Leiomyoma of the ciliary body extending to the anterior chamber: clinicopathologic and ultrasound biomicroscopic correlation

Surv Ophthalmol. 2000 Jan-Feb;44(4):336-42. doi: 10.1016/s0039-6257(99)00114-9.

Abstract

Leiomyoma of the ciliary body is a rare tumor that often causes a diagnostic dilemma. Sclerouvectomy has been found to be beneficial in the management of iris and ciliary body leiomyoma. We treated a case of leiomyoma of the ciliary body presenting as a fleshy mass in the anterior chamber, removed by partial lamellar sclerouvectomy. Ultrasound biomicroscopic and histopathologic features, including light microscopic, immunohistochemistry, and transmission electron microscopic features, were studied and the literature was reviewed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Clinical Conference
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Actins / metabolism
  • Adolescent
  • Anterior Chamber / diagnostic imaging
  • Anterior Chamber / pathology*
  • Anterior Chamber / ultrastructure
  • Antigens, Neoplasm / metabolism
  • Biomarkers, Tumor
  • Ciliary Body / diagnostic imaging
  • Ciliary Body / pathology*
  • Ciliary Body / ultrastructure
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Humans
  • Leiomyoma / diagnosis*
  • Leiomyoma / metabolism
  • Leiomyoma / surgery
  • Male
  • Melanoma-Specific Antigens
  • Neoplasm Invasiveness
  • Neoplasm Proteins / metabolism
  • Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures
  • S100 Proteins / metabolism
  • Ultrasonography
  • Uveal Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Uveal Neoplasms / metabolism
  • Uveal Neoplasms / surgery

Substances

  • Actins
  • Antigens, Neoplasm
  • Biomarkers, Tumor
  • Melanoma-Specific Antigens
  • Neoplasm Proteins
  • S100 Proteins