Conjunctival Melanoma

Conjunctival Melanoma: Symptoms & Treatment - Cleveland Clinic

Conjunctival Melanoma. Conjunctival melanoma, or conjunctival malignant melanoma, is a rare cancer that happens in the tissue that protects the ...

Conjunctival Melanoma: Rare but Deadly

Conjunctival melanoma is a rare but potentially deadly ocular malignancy.1,2 It is well known to masquerade for months or years as a red ...

Management of conjunctival malignant melanoma: a review and ...

This review will provide an overview of the epidemiology, presentation, diagnosis, management, and surveillance of conjunctival melanoma

Conjunctival Melanoma: Terminology, Introduction, Etiology

Malignant melanoma of the conjunctiva presents as a raised pigmented or non-pigmented lesion. [1] This lesion is uncommon but potentially lethal.

Conjunctival Melanocytic Tumors - EyeWiki

A conjunctival malignant melanoma shows invasion of melanoma cells into the subepithelial layers. The cells exhibit the above named signs of ...

Conjunctival Melanoma

Primary Management and Treatment. Surgery is the most common type of treatment for conjunctival melanoma. Enucleation, or removal of the eye, has been used for ...

Conjunctival Melanoma - ScienceDirect.com

Usually, the features of an invasive melanoma are those of a pigmented or nonpigmented, smooth vascularized limbal nodule, but the growth may in rare cases be ...

Conjunctival Melanoma: Genetic and Epigenetic Insights of a ...

In CjM the frequency of specific chromosomal alterations varies between groups. About 30% of BRAF- and 43% of NRAS-mutant conjunctival melanomas show gains of ...

Conjunctival Melanoma: Risk Factors for Recurrence, Exenteration ...

Risk factors for recurrence, exenteration, metastasis, and death in 150 consecutive patients. Carol L. Shields, MD ; Jerry A. Shields, MD ; Kaan Gündüz, MD ; ...

Clinical treatment options for early-stage and advanced conjunctival ...

Conjunctival melanoma (CM) is an ocular malignant tumor arising from the bulbar and palpebral conjunctiva and from the caruncle.

Ocular Melanoma - AIM at Melanoma Foundation

Despite aggressive treatment, primary conjunctival melanoma may recur. Unlike uveal melanoma, which more often spreads to the liver, conjunctival melanoma often ...

Conjunctival melanoma treatment outcomes in 288 patients

This multicentre international study showed that eighth edition of AJCC tumour staging was related to the risk of local recurrence of conjunctival melanoma ...

Conjunctival melanoma survivor: MD Anderson saved my eye and ...

When Liza Dora was diagnosed with a rare type of eye cancer called conjunctival melanoma, she was willing to have her right eye removed.

Conjunctival melanoma and melanocytic intra-epithelial neoplasia

The rarity of conjunctival melanoma has impeded progress in the management of patients with this cancer; however, much progress has occurred ...

Conjunctival Melanoma: A Clinical Review and Update - MDPI

Conjunctival melanoma (Co-M) is an aggressive, invasive eye and eyelid cancer. Its global incidence of ~1 in a million is increasing at a rate ratio of ~1.4 ...

Conjunctival Melanoma in The Netherlands: A Nationwide Study

This was a retrospective study of 194 patients with histologically confirmed conjunctival melanoma diagnosed between 1950 and 2002 in the Netherlands.

Trends in Incidence of Conjunctival Melanoma in the US

This cohort study found CM incidence between 2000 and 2008 stabilized and then decreased by 3.3% per year until 2020.

Eye cancer (ocular melanoma) - symptoms, staging, treatment

Conjunctival melanoma usually develops from a rare condition called primary acquired melanosis (PAM). This causes many brown or dark patches (pigmentation) on ...

Advances in conjunctival melanoma: clinical features, diagnostic ...

In this review, we provide an update on conjunctival melanoma clinical features, diagnostic modalities, AJCC staging, genetic markers, and the most critical, ...

Conjunctival Melanoma: Bladder and Upper Urinary Tract Metastases

This is the first case report of bladder and upper urinary tract metastases from conjunctival melanoma.