Choroidal melanoma responses after brachytherapy treatment.
Serial ultrasonic measurements performed on 85 melanoma patients who were treated with radioactive plaques and followed for up to 141 months revealed that no 2 patients had identical patterns of change. Eighty-two of the patients were categorized into one of four patterns after treatment: Type D (decrease in height, 57 patients), Type S (same height, 12 patients), Type I (increase in height, 9 patients), and Type RG (tumour regrowth, 4 patients). The calculated mean total change in tumor height for Type D was 1.92 mm at 6 months, 2.58 mm at 12 months, 2.97 mm at 24 months and 3.61 mm at 48 months. For Type I, the mean total change in tumor height was 0.80 mm at 6 months, 0.95 mm at 12 months, 2.28 mm at 24 months, and 3.0 mm at 48 months.
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New York Hospital, Cornell University Medical Center, New York, N.Y.
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D001918:Brachytherapy; D002830:Choroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D003037:Cobalt Radioisotopes; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D012074:Remission Induction; D012189:Retrospective Studies
D003037:Cobalt Radioisotopes; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes