University of Iowa Health Care

Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

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Iris Nevus vs. Small Iris Melanoma

This patient presented in 1999 at the age of 27 years old. At that time she said that she had always had a freckle in her right eye that her parents noted when she was a child. This lesion has been followed at the time of this video for 11 years with no change. It is either a thick iris nevus or a melanoma. On echography the lesion is 0.8 mm thick.