Melanoma of the iris
Wellcome Collection

Melanoma of the iris

Mark, Leonard Portal

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Watercolour drawing of an eye of a man aged 58, showing a small pigmented (black) nodule protruding from the iris near the pupillary margin. Microscopically no sarcomatous elements were found, the nodule consisting entirely of pigment cells. It is therefore probably a melanoma.

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