A patient who had the contents of her right eye surgically removed at 14 returned to a Shenzhen hospital nine years later with chronic tearing and intermittent bloody discharge. Imaging found a mass sitting above her orbital implant. When surgeons opened the socket, they found two.
Both were malignant melanoma. Neither had spread from anywhere else. And the likeliest clue to where they came from had been visible on her scalp her entire life.
