Necrotic melanocytoma of the optic disk with central retinal vascular obstruction

Retina

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 364-367

  Agarwal, Swati ^a   Shanmugam, Mahesh P ^a   Gopal, Lingam ^a   Krishnakumar, S ^a   Biswas, Jyotirmay ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (India)

Author keywords

Central retinal vascular occlusion; Malignant transformation of melanocytoma; Melanoma; Necrosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; B SCAN; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL RETINA VEIN OCCLUSION; DISEASE COURSE; ENUCLEATION; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MELANOCYTOSIS; NECROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE TUMOR; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; EYE ENUCLEATION; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; NECROSIS; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE NEOPLASMS; RETINAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; RETINAL VEIN OCCLUSION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 17044462152     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006982-200504000-00019     Document Type: Article

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