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Implantation and Evaluation of Melanoma in the Murine Choroid via Optical Coherence Tomography
Published on: December 2, 2022
[Ocular retention in patients with uveal melanoma managed by a multimodality approach]
C García-Alvarez1, Y Muiños, M A Saornil
1Unidad de Tumores Intraoculares del Adulto, CSUR del SNS, Servicios de Radioterapia, Oftalmología y Unidad de Investigación, Hospital Clínico Universitario, Valladolid, España. cigore@yahoo.es
Objective:
to analyze ocular survival in eyes with uveal melanoma treated with conservative therapies, in a centre that applies all treatment modalities.
Methods:
Patients diagnosed with uveal melanoma and treated between September 1990 and April 2007 were included in an historical cohorts study.
Results:
273 patients were included. 193 were treated with conservative treatments (70.69%) and 80 were enucleated as primary treatment. 14 patients were enucleated after conservative treatment (7.2%). Kaplan-Meier survival analysis showed an 88% survival probability of the eye in the first 5 years after conservative treatment and 83% at 10 years.
Conclusions:
Conservative treatments for uveal melanoma, especially brachitherapy, are safe and effective in relation to tumor control and rate of secondary effects.
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