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Does a child with melanosis occuli have a higher chance of getting melanoma?

My 5 year old daughter has a strange color on her eye that was diagnosed by our doctor as melanosis oculi. Does a child with melanosis occuli have a higher chance of getting melanoma?

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Some types of oculodermal melanosis called nevus of otta may have increased risk of getting choroidal melanoma.
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- Ocular melanosis does care a risk later in life of developing ocular melanoma, or cancer of the eye. The total risk of developing melanoma is still quite low, just higher than for people who do not have ocular melanosis.