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Uveal Melanoma
The eye’s uveal tract consists of the iris, ciliary body, and choroid. It contains a population of melanocytes. Uveal melanomas develop from melanocytes that reside within the stroma of the choroid, ciliary body or iris. The choroid is the vascular part of the human eye between retina and sclera. Though accurate measurements of the choroidal blood flow is difficult, it is known that choroid is ...
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BACKGROUND: Malignant melanoma of the uveal tract is a rare malignancy but a significant cause of mortality and visual loss. Approximately 50% of patients diagnosed with a melanoma of the choroid or ciliary body will die of the disease within 15 years of enucleation. METHODS: The author reviewed the current literature on the clinical findings, epidemiology, and treatment of uveal melanoma. RESU...
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Uveal melanoma is the most common primary intraocular malignancy and the leading primary intraocular disease which can be fatal in adults. In this paper epidemiologic, pathogenetic, and clinical aspects of uveal melanoma are discussed. Despite the advance in local ocular treatments, there has been no change in patient survival for three decades. Development of metastases affects prognosis signi...
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BACKGROUND/AIM There has been no consistent pattern reported on how mortality for uveal melanoma varies with age. This information can be useful to model the complexity of the disease. The authors have examined ocular cancer trends, as an indirect measure for uveal melanoma mortality, to see how rates vary with age and to compare the results with their other studies on predicting metastatic dis...
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Uveal melanoma is the most common type of primary eye cancer in adults, affecting 0.7/100,000 of the Western population yearly (Egan et al., 1988). The melanoma originates from neural crest derived melanocytes of the uvea (choroid, ciliary body and iris) and despite enucleation or conservative treatment half of patients die of, most often late appearing, metastatic disease (15-year survival: 53...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Onkologie
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1802-4475,1803-5345
DOI: 10.36290/xon.2017.008