Rapid growth of choroidal melanoma during pregnancy*

Choroidal melanoma growth patterns.

Thirty patients with choroidal melanoma in whom tumour thickness was found to increase on serial examination were retrospectively studied. Often when tumours started to increase in thickness, after a period of relative quiescence, the growth rate was relatively rapid. Increased tumour thickness was associated with increased tumour growth. During the phase of active tumour growth the height of t...

Melanoma During Pregnancy

Melanoma is the most malignant cutaneous tumor. The incidence of melanoma accounts for the sixth place among malignant diseases, 5% of malignancies among men and 4% of malignancies among women; it stands for 1.4% of deaths caused by malignant disease (Fisher et al., 2008). The incidence of malignant melanoma has constantly been increasing and it has reached 3% per year in the last several years...

The Rapid Growth of Fibroids during Early Pregnancy

Several studies aimed to disentangle whether pregnancy influences the growth of uterine fibroids but results were inconsistent. In this study, we speculated that fibroid enlargement during pregnancy may not be linear and we hypothesized that this phenomenon may mainly occur during initial pregnancy. To test this hypothesis, we set up a prospective cohort study of women with fibroids undergoing ...

Choroidal Melanoma

Fulminant hepatic failure due to metastatic choroidal melanoma