No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript. Choroidal melanoma is the most common primary intraocular malignant tumor in adults and results in metastatic death in up ...

The "Triangle sign" is a hypoechoic/anechoic triangular shape on ultrasound, aiding in differentiating total choroidal detachments from suprachoroidal hemorrhages. The study involved 36 eyes, showing ...

Choroidal neovascularization (CNV) is one of the most important vision-threatening complications secondary to pathological myopia (PM). In the last 20 years, there have been rapid advances in the ...

Your doctor removes the first lymph node or nodes that the melanoma could have spread to. You have a sentinel lymph node biopsy at the same time as a wide local excision. If you don’t have an SLNB, ...

Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that develops from melanocytes, cells responsible for skin pigmentation. While individuals with darker skin, like many African Americans, benefit from higher ...

The stage of melanoma skin cancer tells you how thick it is and how far it has spread. Doctors use different systems to stage melanoma. These include the TNM system and number staging system. The ...

Kelly Heather / SWNS (2) A mom of four is struggling with stage four melanoma, which spread to her brain while she was pregnant — and she alleges it could have been avoided if her doctors had ...