Recurrence and massive extraocular extension of choroidal malignant melanoma after vitrectomy and endoresection

Vitrectomy and endoresection is an alternative to enucleation for the treatment of large malignant choroidal melanoma. We report a rare case of extensive recurrence of choroidal malignant melanoma with extraocular extension 11 years after surgical endoresection without adjuvant treatment.

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Autores principales: Modarres, Mehdi, Rezanejad, Asgari, Falavarjani, Khalil Ghasemi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4131332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25005207
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.136247
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spelling pubmed-41313322014-08-14 Recurrence and massive extraocular extension of choroidal malignant melanoma after vitrectomy and endoresection Modarres, Mehdi Rezanejad, Asgari Falavarjani, Khalil Ghasemi Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communication Vitrectomy and endoresection is an alternative to enucleation for the treatment of large malignant choroidal melanoma. We report a rare case of extensive recurrence of choroidal malignant melanoma with extraocular extension 11 years after surgical endoresection without adjuvant treatment. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4131332/ /pubmed/25005207 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.136247 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Brief Communication
Modarres, Mehdi
Rezanejad, Asgari
Falavarjani, Khalil Ghasemi
Recurrence and massive extraocular extension of choroidal malignant melanoma after vitrectomy and endoresection
title Recurrence and massive extraocular extension of choroidal malignant melanoma after vitrectomy and endoresection
title_full Recurrence and massive extraocular extension of choroidal malignant melanoma after vitrectomy and endoresection
title_fullStr Recurrence and massive extraocular extension of choroidal malignant melanoma after vitrectomy and endoresection
title_full_unstemmed Recurrence and massive extraocular extension of choroidal malignant melanoma after vitrectomy and endoresection
title_short Recurrence and massive extraocular extension of choroidal malignant melanoma after vitrectomy and endoresection
title_sort recurrence and massive extraocular extension of choroidal malignant melanoma after vitrectomy and endoresection
topic Brief Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4131332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25005207
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.136247
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