Some aspects of photocoagulation treatment of intra-ocular vascular tumors and malignant melanoma of the choroid

Riaskoff, S.

doi:10.1007/bf02742244

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“…Encour aged by the initial success of this method of treatment, results in large series of patients were reported [1][2][3][4][5][6]. Later François [7,8] and Riaskoff [9] also reported their results of this treatment. All these authors agree that the beneficial effects on the photocoagulation treatment in malignant melanoma of the cho roid are seen in a certain well-defined group of tumors.…”

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Tumor Regression after Photocoagulation of Malignant Melanomas of the Choroid: An Ultrasonographic Study

Shukla

Gerke²,

Bornfeld³

et al. 1987

Ophthalmologica

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Ultrasonography was performed in 24 eyes harboring malignant melanomas of the choroid to study tumor regression after xenon-arc photocoagulation at periodic intervals after each photocoagulation session. Ophthalmoscopically, 20 (83%) eyes revealed a complete regression of the tumor after 3 months to 3 years of treatment. However, ultrasonography revealed complete tumor regression in only 13 (65%) out of these 20 eyes while the remaining 7 (35%9 eyes had a residual tumor prominence of 0.75–1 µs. 14 (70%) out of 20 tumors were completely regressed 1 year after photocoagulation treatment. Most of the eyes revealed complete disappearance of the tumor after 3–5 photocoagulation sessions. Though 4 tumors which did not respond to photocoagulation treatment were located in the central temporal retina within the vascular arcade, no statistically significant difference could be seen between tumor regression and location of the tumor. Complete tumor regression was seen in 4 out of 5 eyes after encircling coagulation alone while 16 out of 19 eyes revealed complete tumor regression after addition of direct treatment of the tumor. Photocoagulation appeared to be a useful tool in the treatment of small choroidal melanomas.

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Tumor Regression after Photocoagulation of Malignant Melanomas of the Choroid: An Ultrasonographic Study

Shukla

Gerke²,

Bornfeld³

et al. 1987

Ophthalmologica

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“…The type of treatment more widely used at the present time in cases of localized CH is laser photocoagulation, the use of which is limited to those forms associated with a serous detachment of the neural retina [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23].…”

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