Proton irradiation of malignant melanoma of the ciliary body. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • This is our first case of malignant melanoma of the ciliary body treated with proton beam irradiation, a technique that we developed for irradiating choroidal melanomas. After 21 months of follow-up no growth of the tumour has been observed, and shrinkage of the tumour was noted on the follow-up photographs and by ultrasonography. The 32P uptake test, which was positive before treatment, turned negative 14 months after irradiation. The described technique of proton beam irradiation might offer an alternative for the treatment of ciliary body melanomas when the present techniques of iridocyclectomy cannot be applied because of the size of the lesion.

publication date

  • February 1, 1979

Research

keywords

  • Ciliary Body
  • Eye Neoplasms
  • Melanoma

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC1043415

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1136/bjo.63.2.135

PubMed ID

  • 106873

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 63

issue

  • 2