Choroidal melanoma – routes of extraocular extension

Bożena Romanowska-Dixon; Barbara Jakubowska

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Klinika Oczna / Acta Ophthalmologica Polonica

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Choroidal melanoma – routes of extraocular extension

Bożena Romanowska-Dixon

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Barbara Jakubowska

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Klinika Okulistyki i Onkologii Okulistycznej Katedry Okulistyki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego w Krakowie

Klinika Oczna 2013, 115 (2): 107-110

Online publish date: 2013/06/21

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Introduction
To report the routs of extraocular extension of uveal melanoma.

Material and methods
A retrospective study of 170 enucleated eyes with uveal melanoma and deep intrascleral tumor invasion and/or nodular extrascleral extension.

Results
The routes of passages by sclera were natural channels: ciliary arteries, ciliary nerves, optic nerve, vortex veins, aqueous channels and intrascleral melanoma invasion.

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Choroidal melanoma – routes of extraocular extension

Bożena Romanowska-Dixon 1 , Barbara Jakubowska 1

uveal melanoma, extraocular extension

Bożena Romanowska-Dixon

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Barbara Jakubowska

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