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Tumors of the Ciliary Epithelium

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Tumors arising from the ciliary epithelium are quite uncommon. The extremely low prevalence of these tumors often causes them to be mistaken for other more common iridociliary tumors such as melanoma or uveal metastases. The location of these rare lesions growing behind the iris, the complexity in differentiating between benign and malignant tumors, their histologically remarkable cellular polymorphism, and the possibility of dealing with either a congenital or acquired tumor make their diagnosis difficult [1].

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  1. Ocular Oncology Service, Centro de Oftalmología Barraquer, Muntaner 314, Barcelona, 08021, Spain

    Javier Elizalde MD, PhD & Rafael I. Barraquer MD, PhD

  2. Centro de Oftalmología Barraquer, Barcelona, Spain

    Javier Elizalde MD, PhD, María de la Paz MD & Rafael I. Barraquer MD, PhD

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    Bertil Damato

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Elizalde, J., de la Paz, M., Barraquer, R.I. (2014). Tumors of the Ciliary Epithelium. In: Singh, A., Damato, B. (eds) Clinical Ophthalmic Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39489-8_6

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