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Eyelid Tumors: Cutaneous Melanoma

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Cutaneous melanoma of the eyelid is a rare tumor, representing fewer than 1 % of all malignant neoplasms of the eyelid skin [1], 1 % of all skin melanomas [2], and 7 % of cutaneous malignant melanomas of the head and neck region [3]. Many primary melanomas of the eyelid involve the mucosal surfaces of the palpebral and bulbar conjunctiva, and in these cases, one must manage not only the eyelid but also the conjunctival component of the lesion. One may argue reasonably that primary conjunctival melanomas may affect the eyelid secondarily.

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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

    Jacob Pe’er MD

  2. Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Rochester, MI, USA

    Robert Folberg MD

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  2. Dept. of Ophthalmic Oncology, Cole Eye Institute Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

    Arun D. Singh

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Pe’er, J., Folberg, R. (2014). Eyelid Tumors: Cutaneous Melanoma. In: Pe'er, J., Singh, A. (eds) Clinical Ophthalmic Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38336-6_7

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