Local recurrence of choroidal malignant melanoma following enucleation.
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Local recurrence of choroidal malignant melanoma following enucleation.
542 cases of choroidal malignant melanoma were reviewed. Local recurrence occurred in only 6 patients (1.11%). Five of the 6 patients had distant metastases when the local recurrence was diagnosed, and the remaining patient also developed metastases after a passage of time. These figures do not support the concept of withholding a primary implant at the time of enucleation.
متن کاملIsolated brain metastasis of malignant choroidal melanoma 27 years after enucleation.
Choroidal melanoma primarily metastasizes to the liver. Isolated extrahepatic metastases have rarely been reported and they generally resulted in death within 6 months. We describe a patient who developed an isolated brain metastasis 27 years after his left eye was enucleated for choroidal melanoma. The metastasis was successfully treated with surgery and radiotherapy. The patient is alive and ...
متن کاملA case of conjunctival malignant melanoma with local recurrence.
Malignant melanoma of the conjunctiva is a rare tumour of middle and old age. It is seen predominantly in whites, and is rare in those of pigmented ethnicity. Its clinical presentation varies, and making a clinical diagnosis may be difficult. The tumour is potentially fatal and displays a high rate of recurrence, which can be attributed to delay in diagnosis, as well as inadequate surgical appr...
متن کاملPattern of mortality in choroidal malignant melanoma.
A large series of cases of malignant choroidal melanoma has been reviewed. Certain risk factors have been related to prognosis by means of actuarial life tables. With information from these tables to calculate mortality rates graphs were drawn for various risk factors to demonstrate the differing pattern in tumours of varying size, degree of pigment, position of anterior border, etc. Further, a...
متن کاملRecurrence and massive extraocular extension of choroidal malignant melanoma after vitrectomy and endoresection
Vitrectomy and endoresection is an alternative to enucleation for the treatment of large malignant choroidal melanoma. We report a rare case of extensive recurrence of choroidal malignant melanoma with extraocular extension 11 years after surgical endoresection without adjuvant treatment.
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 1981
ISSN: 0007-1161
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.65.12.846