The case of a 40-year-old female patient with choroidal melanoma with secondary glaucoma presenting as a painful blind right eye is reported. Liver metastasis was detected by ultrasonography. The choroidal tumor measured 2 x 2.1 x 1.5 cm; histopathology showed that it was of the spindle cell (spindle A) variety. Such tumors are rare in non-white races and secondary glaucoma is an uncommon prese...

The authors present enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography (EDI OCT) and fundus autofluorescence (FAF) characteristics of a patient with bilateral choroidal osteoma and try to make a correlation between two imaging techniques. Two eyes of a patient with choroidal osteoma underwent complete ophthalmic examination. Enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography revealed a cage-l...

Twenty-two patients with choroidal melanomas were treated conservatively using radioactive radon rings with a mean follow-up of 43 months. In 14 patients there was successful tumor regression. Eight eyes were enucleated because of inadequate tumor response. Of the patients whose tumors were apparently destroyed, two have subsequently died of metastases and one eye was enucleated due to scleral ...

Introduction: Melanomas are malignant neoplasms that occur in various anatomical sites, including the eye. Ocular melanomas account for 5% of all and mainly described Caucasian older individuals. This study describes clinical pathological characteristics uveal (choroid) melanoma a patient. Case report: A 41-year-old female patient, brown eyes, without history ophthalmological diseases or family...

Diffuse choroidal hemangiomas associated with Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS) are classically treated with external beam radiotherapy (EBR), but there are a few reports usually of single cases indicating the usefulness of plaque therapy. We present our observations on two cases of diffuse choroidal hemangiomas with exudative retinal detachment associated with SWS treated with Ruthenium-106 plaque t...

Choroidal osteoma is a benign ossified tumor first described by Gass et al in 1978 (1). These tumors are predominantly observed in young healthy women, and are unilateral in the majority of cases. The most serious vision-threatening complication is the formation of choroidal neovascular membrane (CNVM) and its sequelae such as subretinal hemorrhage, serous detachment, macular edema, and discifo...

Choroidal melanoma is the most common primary ocular malignant neoplasm among adults. However, innumerable benign and malignant lesions may mimic its ophthalmoscopic features. Moreover, atypical presentations of the tumor may also occur, in some cases making diagnostic elucidation even more difficult and thus increasing the importance of supplementary tests, especially ultrasonographic methods....

PURPOSE To analyze indocyanine green (ICG) angiographic findings of chorioretinal folds. METHODS Eight patients (9 eyes) in whom chorioretinal folds had been diagnosed were enrolled in this study. Color photography, fluorescein angiography (FA) and ICG angiography (IA) were performed. RESULTS Indocyanine green angiography demonstrated choroidal venous congestion and a filling delay of the c...

PURPOSE To report an experience with fine-needle aspiration biopsy of selected small melanocytic choroidal tumors during the interval from April 13, 1983, through January 19, 2001. METHODS Retrospective descriptive case series report of 34 patients with a small melanocytic choroidal tumor (maximal diameter, < or = 10 mm; thickness, > or = 1.5 mm but < or = 3 mm) evaluated diagnostically by tr...