[Choroidal melanoma. An anatomic-clinical case report].
A 78-year-old-male-patient had his left eye affected by a 10 mm thick choroidal malignant melanoma. The size of the tumor did not allowed to keep the eye, and no conservative treatment was used for therapy. Enucleation was performed and histopathological study of the eye showed a mushroom-shaped and mixed-cell choroidal melanoma, devoid of transcleral extension, but harboring intrascleral infiltration. A period of 2 year-follow-up without metastasis was observed since the removal of the tumoral eye.
D'hermies
F
F
Service d'Ophtalmologie du Pr Renard, Hôtel-Dieu, 1, place du Parvis Notre-Dame, 75181 Paris Cedex 04, France.
Berges
O
O
Meyer
A
A
Morel
X
X
Gauthier
J
J
Elmaleh
C
C
Boscher
C
C
Malek-Chehire
N
N
Renard
G
G
D000368:Aged; D002830:Choroid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D013997:Time Factors