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We described two cases of a blind painful eye containing an unsuspected tumor, which were enucleated to relieve the pain.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Case presentations<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>\n              <jats:bold>Case 1<\/jats:bold>: A 57 year-old Caucasian man presented with recurrent orbital cellulitis and endophthalmitis in the left eye (OS). The OS was blind and painful and an enucleation was performed showing a uveal melanoma by histopathological exam. <jats:bold>Case 2<\/jats:bold>: A 54 year-old Caucasian man with previous history of a rhegmatogenous retinal detachment in his left eye presented a blind painful eye. Enucleation was performed revealing a well-differentiated B-cell lymphoma of uveal tract with extra ocular extension.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>In the management of a blind painful eye, it is extremely important to rule out an intraocular malignancy particularly in those patients who have not been followed by an ophthalmologist.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/1746-1596-1-45","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2006,12,1]],"date-time":"2006-12-01T19:16:25Z","timestamp":1165000585000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Malignancy in the blind painful eye \u2013 report of two cases and literature review"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"1","author":[{"given":"Patr\u00edcia Rusa","family":"Pereira","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Alexandre Nakao","family":"Odashiro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jo\u00e3o Pessoa","family":"Souza Filho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Vinicius S","family":"Saraiva","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"David Gerardo","family":"Camoriano","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"suffix":"Jr","given":"Miguel N","family":"Burnier","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2006,11,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"45_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"326","DOI":"10.1097\/00002341-200009000-00004","volume":"16","author":"PL Custer","year":"2000","unstructured":"Custer PL, Reistad CE: Enucleation of blind, painful eyes. 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