title: Screening for conjunctival melanoma metastasis: literature review.
abstract: Local tumour control in conjunctival melanoma has improved in recent years. However the tumour-related death rate of these patients is still 14% at 5 years up to 33% at 15 years. With the introduction of sentinel node biopsies for conjunctival melanomas with a poor prognosis and screening for locoregional and distant metasases prognosis might be improved.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden University, The Netherlands. guymissotten@hotmail.com
authors.forename: G S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Missotten
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: de Wolff-Rouendaal
authors.forename: R J W
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: de Keizer
mesh_terms: D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003230:Conjunctival Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality / Q000556:secondary* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D008545:Melanoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality / Q000556:secondary* / Q000628:therapy; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D011379:Prognosis; D021701:Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D015996:Survival Rate