Choroidal Melanoma in an Asymptomatic Patient
Choroidal melanoma tumor profile and treatment pattern for newly ...
Besides the visual impairment that might be associated with the late diagnosis, patients with choroidal melanoma are at risk for metastatic ...
Choroidal Melanoma: A Mini Review - MDPI
Several factors affect prognosis, including the patient's age, tumour size, histological features, and presence of metastases. Still, with primary treatment and ...
The Treatment of Choroidal Melanoma: How, Why, When and by ...
The treatment of choroidal melanoma is challenging and controversial. Although the primary aim is to prolong life, almost 50% of patients ...
Choroidal Melanoma: Screening for metastasis and frequency of ...
... asymptomatic choroidal lesion in the right eye. ... Figure 1: B-scan ultrasound of the patient's choroidal melanoma showing the elevated choroidal.
Choroidal sarcoid granuloma: a case report and review of the literature
Patients often complain of painless blurry vision but may also note flashes and floaters, pain, or be asymptomatic [37, 39,40,41,42]. Choroidal ...
Choroidal Nevus: Growth Without Transformation - Retina Today
This case highlights that slow growth of choroidal nevus, especially in young patients, is not a definitive sign of melanoma transformation.
Uveal melanoma is a rare tumor of the eye, arising from the choroid in 90% of cases and from the iris and ciliary body in the other 10% of cases.
Also called intraocular or ocular melanoma, this type of cancer occurs in only 5 people per million. But, it can resist treatment and spread quickly through the ...
Uveal Melanoma - Modern Optometry
Thirty percent of individuals with ciliary body and choroidal melanoma are asymptomatic. ... Because the iris tends to hide most of the lesion, ciliary body ...
Treating Eye Melanoma by Location and Size
Treating melanomas that start in the choroid depends on the size of the tumor and how well the eye functions. The smaller the tumor, the less ...
Necrotic choroidal melanoma masquerading as scleritis
We report a case of a patient who presented with symptoms of acute onset scleritis in the left eye but was found to have an underlying necrotic choroidal ...
Treating Small Choroidal Melanoma - New York Eye Cancer Center
Small choroidal melanomas have much less chance of metastasizing than large tumors. However, all current treatments put the patient at risk for significant ...
Metastatic choroidal melanoma to the contralateral eye: a rare case
Uveal melanoma is the most common adult primary intraocular cancer. Although liver metastasis is common to the natural history of the disease, metastasis to ...
lighter eye colour – if you have blue, grey or green eyes, you have a higher risk of developing eye melanoma compared with people who have brown eyes; white or ...
Metastatic disease from uveal melanoma: treatment options and ...
Uveal melanoma represents ∼85% of all ocular melanomas and up to 50% of patients develop metastatic disease. Metastases are most frequently localised to the ...
Ocular Melanoma Screening and Diagnosis - OSUCCC – James
These tests are usually done when the patient is healthy and has no specific symptoms. The American Academy of Ophthalmology recommends a dilated eye ...
Ocular Melanoma - AIM at Melanoma Foundation
Some cases of uveal melanoma are diagnosed during a routine eye exam without the patient having any symptoms, other patients develop symptoms that prompt them ...
Uveal melanoma among octogenarians - Klinika Oczna
Choroidal melanoma in patients under 20 years of age is a rare condition, which usually occurs during or shortly after puberty period. Analysis of a large group ...
Symptoms of Choroidal Melanoma - Retina Consultants of Alabama
Most patients exhibit no symptoms of choroidal melanoma and it is only discovered through routine eye examinations. If symptoms do occur, the patient might ...
Ocular melanoma - Melanoma and Skin Cancer Trials
A person with ocular melanoma may be asymptomatic or the cancer may be picked up incidentally during a routine eye exam. ... Uveal melanoma clinical trials. Open ...