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Journal Article
Sunlight and Intraocular Melanoma
1986
Overview
To the Editor:
The article on sunlight exposure as a risk factor for intraocular malignant melanoma (September 26 issue)* has attracted considerable media attention. The authors conclude that \"early-life exposures to sunlight may be especially important in the development of intraocular malignant melanoma.\" There is, however, one important caveat to this statement. Even in young children, whose lenses are capable of transmitting substantial amounts of ultraviolet radiation, I find it difficult to understand how this radiation can impinge on the choroid and the ciliary body. Both tissues are completely protected from such exposure, not only from ultraviolet radiation but also . . .
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Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
