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Socket Malignancy

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The development of a malignant tumor in an anophthalmic socket is considered a rare entity. Although most anophthalmic patients are closely followed up with frequent visits with ophthalmologists, oculoplastic surgeons, and their ocularists, such entities can be overlooked for long periods of time. Only a handful of cases of malignant tumors originating in the anophthalmic socket, such as ocular surface squamous neoplasia (OSSN) and conjunctival malignant melanoma (MM), have been reported in the literature. However, recurrent malignancies can occur in enucleated, eviscerated, or exenterated sockets, and careful surveillance is needed to detect these tumors early and treat them expeditiously.

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Anagnostopoulos, A.G., Johnson, T.E. (2020). Socket Malignancy. In: Johnson, T. (eds) Anophthalmia . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29753-4_17

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