Extremely Rapid Growth of a Primary Choroidal Melanoma
- 1 September 1983
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Ophthalmology (1950)
- Vol. 101 (9) , 1375-1377
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archopht.1983.01040020377006
Abstract
• A small, minimally elevated, nonpigmented choroidal tumor increased in volume 12-fold and grew from the edge of the fovea to the optic disk within 60 days. Histopathology of the enucleated globe demonstrated a mixed spindle and epithelioid cell malignant melanoma with numerous mitotic figures. The calculated doubling time of this tumor was 17 days.Keywords
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