Posterior uveal melanoma in young patients treated with proton beam therapy

Retina

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1267-1271

  Vavvas, Demetrios ^a   Kim, Ivana ^a   Lane, Anne Marie ^a   Chaglassian, Alan ^a   Mukai, Shizuo ^a   Gragoudas, Evangelos ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

melanoma; proton beam irradiation; uveal; young

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; METASTASIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTERIOR UVEAL MELANOMA; PROGNOSIS; PROTON THERAPY; RETINA FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SURVIVAL; TUMOR VOLUME; UVEA MELANOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; UVEAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957575098     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0b013e3181cfdfad     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Singh AD, Topham A. Incidence of uveal melanoma in the United States: 1973-1997. Ophthalmology 2003;110:956-961.
2. Apt L. Uveal melanomas in children and adolescents. Int Ophthalmol Clin 1962;2:403-410.
3. Barr CC, McLean IW, Zimmerman LE. Uveal melanoma in children and adolescents. Arch Ophthalmol 1981;99: 2133-2136.
4. Gailloud C, Zografos L, Bercher L, Uffer S, Egger E. Uveal melanomas in patients less than 20 years of age [in French]. Klin Monatsbl Augenheilkd 1992;200:428-430.
5. Jensen OA. Malignant melanomas of the human uvea. Recent follow-up of cases in Denmark, 1943-1952. Acta Ophthalmol (Copenh) 1970;48:1113-1128.
6. Leonard BC, Shields JA, McDonald PR. Malignant melanomas of the uveal tract in children and young adults. Can J Ophthalmol 1975;10:441-449.
7. Pogrzebielski A, Orłowska-Heitzman J, Romanowska-Dixon B. Uveal melanoma in young patients. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 2006;244:1646-1649.
8. Romanowska B, Zygulska-Mach H, Ksiezyk M. Survival rate of young patients with malignant choroidal melanoma after conservative treatment [in Polish]. Klin Oczna 1998;100: 211-216.
9. Shields CL, Shields JA, Milite J, De Potter P, Sabbagh R, Menduke H. Uveal melanoma in teenagers and children. A report of 40 cases. Ophthalmology 1991;98:1662-1666.
10. Singh AD, Shields CL, Shields JA, Sato T. Uveal melanoma in young patients. Arch Ophthalmol 2000;118:918-923.
11. Verdaguer JJ. Prepuberal and puberal melanomas in ophthalmology. Am J Ophthalmol 1965;60:1002-1011.
12. Broadway D, Lang S, Harper J, et al. Congenital malignant melanoma of the eye. Cancer 1991;67:2642-2652.
13. Greer CH. Congenital melanoma of the anterior uvea. Arch Ophthalmol 1966;76:77-78.
14. Palazzi MA, Ober MD, Abreu HF, et al. Congenital uveal malignant melanoma: a case report. Can J Ophthalmol 2005;40:611-615.
15. Posnick JC, Chen P, Zuker R, Greenberg ML, Becker LE, Phillips J. Extensive malignant melanoma of the uvea in childhood: resection and immediate reconstruction with microsurgical and craniofacial techniques. Ann Plast Surg 1993;31:265-270.
16. Paul EV, Parnell BL, Fraker M. Prognosis of malignant melanomas of the choroid and ciliary body. Int Ophthalmol Clin 1962;2:387-402.
17. Gonder JR, Shields JA, Albert DM, Augsburger JJ, Lavin PT. Uveal malignant melanoma associated with ocular and oculodermal melanocytosis. Ophthalmology 1982;89:953-960.
18. Singh AD, De Potter P, Fijal BA, Shields CL, Shields JA, Elston RC. Lifetime prevalence of uveal melanoma in white patients with oculo (dermal) melanocytosis. Ophthalmology 1998;105:195-198.
19. Greene MH, Sanders RJ, Chu FC, Clark WHJ, Elder DE, Cogan DG. The familial occurrence of cutaneous melanoma, intraocular melanoma, and the dysplastic nevus syndrome. Am J Ophthalmol 1983;96:238-245.
20. Taylor MR, Guerry D VI, Bondi EE, et al. Lack of association between intraocular melanoma and cutaneous dysplastic nevi. Am J Ophthalmol 1984;98:478-482.
21. Singh AD, Shields CL, Shields JA, Eagle RC, De Potter P. Uveal melanoma and familial atypical mole and melanoma (FAM-M) syndrome. Ophthalmic Genet 1995;16:53-61.
22. Balch CM, Soong SJ, Gershenwald JE, et al. Prognostic factors analysis of 17,600 melanoma patients: validation of the American Joint Committee on Cancer melanoma staging system. J Clin Oncol 2001;19:3622-3634.
23. Chao C, Martin RC II, Ross MI, et al. Correlation between prognostic factors and increasing age in melanoma. Ann Surg Oncol 2004;11:259-264.
24. Conway WC, Faries MB, Nicholl MB, et al. Age-related lymphatic dysfunction in melanoma patients. Ann Surg Oncol 2009;16:1548-1552.
25. Strouse JJ, Fears TR, Tucker MA, Wayne AS. Pediatric melanoma: risk factor and survival analysis of the surveillance, epidemiology and end results database. J Clin Oncol 2005;23: 4735-4741.