Laver N V, Rubinfeld R S, Baum M, de Brito P A
Department of Pathology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.
Diagn Cytopathol. 1996 May;14(3):259-62. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0339(199604)14:3<259::AID-DC12>3.0.CO;2-K.
Intraoperative cytology is an alternative and sometimes preferred method to frozen section in the rapid evaluation of surgical biopsies. This report describes the cytological, histological, and immunohistochemical features of a case of mixed pigmented/nonpigmented pleomorphic adenoma of the ciliary body with clinical and morphological features reminiscent of malignant melanoma. The characteristic cyto-histomorphology of this unusual tumor and its distinguishing features from malignant melanoma are discussed.
