title: Optical coherence tomography of melanocytoma.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the use of optical coherence tomography in differentiating between melanocytoma and choroidal melanoma.
  
  
  METHODS
  Case reports. Three consecutive patients with melanocytoma were scanned using optical coherence tomography.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Optical coherence tomography showed lesions with a high reflectance signal anteriorly and optical shadowing behind, corresponding to the melanocytomas. The high signal was continuous with the retinal nerve fiber layer, consistent with known growth patterns of melanocytoma.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Optical coherence tomography may be useful in differentiating melanocytoma from choroidal melanocytic lesions.
authors: GKT Department of Ophthalmology, Rayne Institute, St Thomas' Hospital, England, London, UK.
authors: R J
authors: RJ
authors: Antcliff
authors: T J
authors: TJ
authors: ffytche
authors: J S
authors: JS
authors: Shilling
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Marshall
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002830:Choroid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003941:Diagnostic Techniques, Ophthalmological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007368:Interferometry; D008027:Light; D008545:Melanoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D008875:Middle Aged; D009508:Nevus, Pigmented / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014054:Tomography / Q000379:methods