Laser treatment for choroidal melanoma
Laser treatment for choroidal melanoma: Current concepts - PubMed
Laser treatment has offered a relatively nonsurgical alternative for eye, life, and vision-sparing treatment of malignant melanoma of the ...
Laser Therapy for Eye Cancer | Transpupillary thermotherapy
Transpupillary thermotherapy (TTT). This is the most common type of laser treatment for eye melanoma. It uses infrared light to heat and kill ...
Laser treatment for choroidal melanoma: Current concepts
Combined laser-induced thermotherapy and proton beam radiation may decrease exudative retinal detachments more rapidly than radiation alone; however, their long ...
Choroidal Melanoma: Innovations in Treatment - Retina Today
It is important to note that, to date, no laser method has produced acceptable local control rates in treatment of choroidal melanomas. However, laser has added ...
Intraocular (Uveal) Melanoma Treatment - NCI
There are different types of treatment for intraocular melanoma. The most common treatment is surgery. Radiation therapy, photocoagulation ...
Treating Eye Melanoma by Location and Size
Proton beam therapy and stereotactic radiation therapy are usually used first. Additional treatment with surgery or lasers may also be ...
Eye melanoma - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo Clinic
Treatment that uses a laser to kill the melanoma cells may be an option in certain situations. One type of laser treatment, called thermotherapy ...
Choroidal Melanoma | Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
Advanced treatment options include focused radiotherapy, laser hyperthermia, combined application treatments including radiotherapy, hyperthermia, and surgical ...
Laser photocoagulation for radiation retinopathy after ophthalmic ...
66 eyes with posterior choroidal melanomas treated by ophthalmic plaque radiation therapy were reported. Of these patients, 50 were selected because they ...
Can Ocular Melanoma Be Treated? - Silicon Valley Eye Physicians
Laser therapy is used in rare circumstances to treat very small ocular melanomas or to lessen the likelihood of cancer returning following ...
Laser Photocoagulation For Radiation Retinopathy
Sector scatter argon laser photocoagulation can be used to induce regression of radiation retinopathy. Though early treatment of radiation retinopathy appears ...
Transpupillary Thermotherapy as Primary Treatment for Small ...
PREVAILING contemporary treatments for choroidal melanomas include enucleation and radiation therapy (teletherapy with proton beam or helium ions or ...
Intraocular (Uveal) Melanoma - Patients
Recent advances have shown excellent success (efficacy) when tumor treatment is performed during vitrectomy surgery. Laser surgical approaches are typically ...
Choroidal and Ciliary Body Melanoma - EyeWiki
Depending upon several clinical factors, management options today include observation, radiation, laser, surgery, medical management, or a ...
Low-energy long-exposure laser therapy in the management of ...
Low-energy (0.2–0.4 W) long-exposure (10–30 s) argon green and krypton red laser applications were used in the treatment of 29 selected choroidal melanomas.
Choroidal Melanoma: Practice Essentials, Overview, Pathophysiology
Laser photocoagulation and transpupillary thermotherapy are used to treat selected small choroidal melanomas that are located away from the ...
Uveal Melanoma | Wills Eye Hospital
Treatment · Enucleation · Plaque radiotherapy · Partial lamellar sclerouvectomy (resection) · Laser photocoagulation · Thermotherapy.
Laser photocoagulation treatment of choroidal melanoma - 1993
Ten cases of choroidal melanoma were treated with Argon and/or Krypton laser photocoagulation in this retrospective study. Each patient received an average ...
Uveal Melanoma: What You Need to Know
Radiation therapy: This is the most common treatment for uveal melanoma. ... Laser therapy: Laser therapy uses a high-energy beam of light to destroy cancer cells ...
Laser photocoagulation treatment of choroidal melanoma
Ten cases of choroidal melanoma were treated with. Argon andlor Krypton laser photocoagulation in this retrospective study. Each patient received an average of ...