Recurrence of Choroidal Melanoma After Photocoagulation Therapy
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Barr, Charles C.; Norton, Edward W. D.
- Source
- Archives of Ophthalmology; November 1983, Vol. 101 Issue: 11 p1737-1740, 4p
- Subject
- Language
- ISSN
- 00039950; 15383601
• A 40-year-old man had a small choroidal melanoma in his left eye. The tumor was seemingly erradicated by xenon arc photocoagulation; however, eight years later the tumor recurred along the inferior edge of the chorioretinal scar, and the eye was enucleated. Histopathologic examination of the lesion revealed a spindle B-cell melanoma.