title: Recurrence of choroidal melanoma after photocoagulation therapy.
abstract: A 40-year-old man had a small choroidal melanoma in his left eye. The tumor was seemingly erradicated by xenon arc photocoagulation; however, eight years later the tumor recurred along the inferior edge of the chorioretinal scar, and the eye was enucleated. Histopathologic examination of the lesion revealed a spindle B-cell melanoma.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002829:Choroid / Q000473:pathology; D002830:Choroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008028:Light Coagulation; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local