Ciliary Body Tumour Occurring in a Nigerian - A case report

Objective: To report the rare case of a 33-year-old female Nigerian who presented to our retina clinic with a chronic total retinal detachment and visual acuity of no light perception in her left eye. Re-attachment surgery in the eye was not attempted as prognosis for return of vision was poor. She was later noted to harbor a progressively enlarging ciliary body mass in the inferotemporal quadrant. Method: An observational case report was performed, with documentation of findings as patient was seen in the clinic. Conclusion: This is the first report of a ciliary body mass lesion in a Nigerian. The ciliary body mass could be a ciliary melanoma (ciliary body lesion being rarer than a choroidal mass) but other benign differential diagnoses must be borne in mind. Enucleation and histological assessment of the specimen will give the definitive diagnosis. Difficulties with patient acceptance of enucleating a non seeing eye though harboring a potentially harmful disease still abound in our environment.