title: Nursing care of the choroidal melanoma patient.
abstract: A patient diagnosed with choroidal melanoma presents the ophthalmic nurse with a unique opportunity to practice one of the most challenging aspects of clinical and psychosocial nursing care. Although choroidal melanoma is a treatable cancer, this tumor has the ability to increase in size, to metastasize, and to cause death.
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Servodidio
mesh_terms: D002830:Choroid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000451:nursing* / Q000601:surgery; D005137:Eye, Artificial; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000451:nursing* / Q000601:surgery; D013527:Perioperative Nursing