Prognostic accuracy of the mean of the largest nucleoli, vascular patterns, and PC-10 in posterior uveal melanoma

Ophthalmology

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 485-491

  Seregard, Stefan ^a   Spångberg, Berit ^a   Juul, Carina ^a   Oskarsson, Margareta ^a  

^a ST ERIK S EYE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; METASTASIS; NUCLEOLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; UVEA MELANOMA; VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 0031952689     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-6420(98)93032-9     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Seregard S, Kock E. Prognostic indicators following enucleation for posterior uveal melanoma. A multivariate analysis of long-term survival with minimized loss to follow-up. Acta Ophthalmol Scand 1995; 73:340-4.
2. Diener-West M, Hawkins BS, Markowitz JA, Schachat AP. A review of mortality from choroidal melanoma. II. A meta-analysis of 5-year mortality rates following enucleation, 1966 through 1988. Arch Ophthalmol 1992; 110: 245-50.
3. Coleman K, Baak JPA, Van-Diest P, et al. Prognostic factors following enucleation of 111 uveal melanomas. Br J Ophthalmol 1993; 77:688-92.
4. Seregard S, Oskarsson M, Spångberg B. PC-10 as a predictor of prognosis after antigen retrieval in posterior uveal melanoma. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 1996; 37:1451-8.
5. Huntingdon A, Haugan P, Gamel J, McLean I. A simple cytologic method for predicting the malignant potential of intraocular melanoma. Pathol Res Pract 1989; 185:631-4.
6. McCurdy J, Gamel J, McLean I. A simple, efficient, and reproducible method for estimating the malignant potential of uveal melanoma from routine H & E slides. Pathol Res Pract 1991; 187:1025-7.
7. Folberg R, Pe'er J, Gruman LM, et al. The morphologic characteristics of tumor blood vessels as a marker of tumor progression in primary human uveal melanoma: a matched case-control study. Hum Pathol 1992; 23:1298-305.
8. Folberg R, Rummelt V, Parys-Van Ginderdeuren R, et al. The prognostic value of tumor blood vessel morphology in primary uveal melanoma. Ophthalmology 1993; 100:1389-98.
9. Pe'er J, Rummelt V, Mawn L, et al. Mean of the ten largest nucleoli, microcirculation architecture and prognosis of ciliochoroidal melanomas. Ophthalmology 1994; 101:1227-35.
10. Foss AJ, Alexander RA, Jefferies LW, et al. Microvessel count predicts survival in uveal melanoma. Cancer Res 1996; 56:2900-3.
11. Ghazvini S, Kroll S, Char DH, Frigillana H. Comparative analysis of proliferating cell nuclear antigen, bromodeoxyuridine, and mitotic index in uveal melanoma. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 1995; 36:2762-7.
12. Karlsson M, Boeryd B, Carstensen J, et al. Correlations of Ki-67 and PCNA to DNA ploidy, S-phase fraction and survival in uveal melanoma. Eur J Cancer 1996; 32A:357-62.
13. Hanley JA, McNeil BJ. The meaning and use of the area under a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Radiology 1982; 143:29-36.
14. Hanley JA, McNeil BJ. A method of comparing the areas under receiver operating characteristic curves derived from the same cases. Radiology 1983; 148:839-43.
15. Christensen E. Multivariate survival analysis using Cox's regression model. Hepatology 1987; 7:1346-58.
16. Seregard S. Cell growth and p53 expression in primary acquired melanosis and conjunctival melanoma. J Clin Pathol 1996; 49:338-42.
17. Foss AJE, Alexander RA, Hungerford JL, et al. Reassessment of the PAS patterns in uveal melanoma. Br J Ophthalmol 1997; 81:240-6.
18. Cox DR. Regression models and life-tables. J R Stat Soc 1972; B34:187-202.
19. Gamel JW, McLean IW. A method for determining the optimum transform for covariates of the Cox model with application to 3680 cases of intraocular melanoma. Comput Biomed Res 1988; 21:471-7.
20. Seddon JM, Albert DM, Lavin PT, Robinson N. A prognostic factor study of disease-free interval and survival following enucleation for uveal melanoma. Arch Ophthalmol 1983; 101:1894-9.
21. Lattman J, Kroll S, Char DH, et al. Cell cycling and prognosis in uveal melanoma. Clin Cane Res 1995; 1:41-7.
22. Gamel JW, Curdy JB, McLean IW. A comparison of prognostic covariates for uveal melanoma. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 1992; 33:1919-22.
23. Swets JA. Measuring the accuracy of diagnostic systems. Science 1988; 240:1285-93.
24. McLean IW, Sibug ME, Becker RL, McCurdy JB. Uveal melanoma: the importance of large nucleoli in predicting patient outcome - an automated image analysis. Study Cancer 1997; 79:982-8.