Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma Metastatic to the Eye, Lids, and Orbit

Survey of Ophthalmology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 187-202

  Rosenberg, Caroline ^a,b   Finger, Paul T ^a,b,c  

^a NEW YORK EYE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

cutaneous; eye; glaucoma; malignant melanoma; metastatic; ocular; orbit; seeding; vitreous

Indexed keywords

ALPHA2B INTERFERON; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BCG VACCINE; DACARBAZINE;

BCG VACCINATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHOROID TUMOR; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONJUNCTIVA TUMOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIPLOPIA; ECHOGRAPHY; EXOPHTHALMOS; EYE METASTASIS; EYELID METASTASIS; EYELID TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBIT METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; UVEA MELANOMA; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EYE NEOPLASMS; EYELID NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM SEEDING; ORBITAL NEOPLASMS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 43649106637     PISSN: 00396257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.survophthal.2008.02.003     Document Type: Review

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