[Survival rate of young patients with malignant choroidal melanoma after conservative treatment].
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this study was estimation of the results of treatment and probability of survival in patients with malignant choroidal melanoma at the age under 40 at the time of diagnosis.


METHODS
110 patients were treated, including 61 women and 49 men. The follow-up time was 5-25 years, in the diagnosis several different methods were used: ophthalmoscopy, ultrasonography, transillumination, and in some cases additionally computer tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and fluorescein angiography. All patients were also periodically tested for metastases. The following methods of treatment of melanoma were applied: xenon-arc photocoagulation (21 eyes), brachytherapy (33 eyes), combined treatment (45 eyes). In 58 patients enucleation, and in 2 exenteration were necessary.


CONCLUSIONS
Positive results of treatment were obtained in 48 patients (43.7%), 24 patients died because of metastases. The chance of survival was smaller in women, in cases of greatest dimension of the tumours, when the tumours were located in peripheral areas of the eye fundus, when the tumours infiltrated the optic nerve, and in epithelioid cell type of tumour.
Katedry i Kliniki Okulistyki CM UJ w Krakowie.
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Ksiezyk
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D001918:Brachytherapy / Q000379:methods; D002830:Choroid Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate
Szansa przezycia osób młodych leczonych zachowawczo z powodu czerniaka naczyniówki.