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Implantation and Evaluation of Melanoma in the Murine Choroid via Optical Coherence Tomography
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[Is every iris pigment lesion a melanoma? Case report]
Gabriela Delong1, Artur Smoliński, Stanisława Gierek-Ciaciura
1Kliniki Okulistycznej Wojskowego Instytutu Medycznego w Warszawie.
Klinika Oczna
|June 29, 2004
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In this paper authors present a history and clinical findings of 78 years old man with suspicion of iris melanoma. Malignant melanoma accounts for 70% of cell malignant tumors of the eye. The paper also contains short review of the most important clinical characteristic, diagnostic and treatment of iris melanoma.
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