Malignant lesions of conjunctiva require appropriate management

From: Ophthalmology Times | Date: September 15, 2007| Author: Charters, Lynda | Copyright information

Approaches

Find out when to follow, when to treat the most common ocular malignancies

Reviewed by Nicholas Iliff, MD

Baltimore-Appropriate management of malignant lesions of the conjunctiva requires detailed knowledge of the appearance and nature of the lesions. Nicholas Iliff, MD, explained how to differentiate among the most common malignant lesions seen by ophthalmologists during the Current Concepts in Ophthalmology meeting, Baltimore.

The meeting was sponsored...

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