The contact lens specialist happened to notice a small, pigmented nevus on the patient’s iris. It seemed to be ... Our experience with UBM at the Eye Institute and Laser Center reveals that ...

They have different names depending on where they are: Conjunctival nevus: On the surface of your eye Iris nevus: In the colored part of your eye Choroidal nevus: Under your retina (in back of ...

The host susceptibility factors for uveal melanoma include fair skin, light eye color, inability to tan, ocular or oculodermal melanocytosis, cutaneous or iris or choroidal nevus, and BRCA1 ...

An eye freckle (nevi) is a cluster of abnormal melanocytes, or cells that produce melanin that sit on the surface of the iris. Melanin is a pigment that gives your eyes, hair, and skin color.

It seems that UBM has a better ability to penetrate through the lesion into the eye, providing better images ... Tumors were identified in the iris stroma in 96 eyes, the iris pigment epithelium ...

Choroidal nevi are little freckles -- colored areas in the back of your eye. They're benign, or noncancerous, ocular tumors that form on the iris or choroid. Because they're not cancer ...

white part of your eye clear covering of your eyeball (conjunctival nevus) iris, or colored part of your eye (iris nevus) Share on Pinterest bradleyblackburn/Getty Images In very rare cases ...

Iris tumors are not very common. They may be classified as solid or cystic tumors. Among the solid tumors, iris nevi and melanomas ... for enucleation of the eye.

This cell movement also plugs the fluid outflow channels of the eye, causing glaucoma. While the cause of this disease is unknown, iridocorneal endothelial syndrome (ICE) syndrome is a grouping of ...

First, someone with more pigmentation. "She is a brown-eyed patient, and she actually does have one iris nevus in her right eye," says Dr. Kristi Weatherly, an optometrist at the Chang Eye Group.

On examination, the patient's best-corrected visual acuity was 20/20 OU, and both eyes had normal intraocular pressure, the team reported in JAMA Ophthalmology. A slit lamp examination showed that ...

These nevi make up more than half of all conjunctival lesions and usually appear in childhood. When the eye freckle is on the iris (the colored part of the eye), it’s called an iris nevus.