TAORMINA, Italy — Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment after local resection of choroidal melanoma has an incidence of about 18%. It is more common with thick tumors, and it is usually treatable ...

Ocular melanoma is cancer that starts in the tissues, skin, or area around the eye. Sometime you can't see its symptoms in the mirror. Learn the signs.

Melanoma is a relatively rare tumor arising ... (55%), nonpigmented (15%), or has a mixed color (30%), associated with retinal detachment (71%), intraocular hemorrhage (10%), or extraocular ...

Glaucoma Research Foundation: "What is Glaucoma?" National Eye Institute: "Retinal Detachment." Mayo Clinic: "Eye melanoma." Cancer.net from the American Society of Clinical Oncology: "Eye Cancer ...

Woman who had a freckle in the back of her eye was diagnosed with ocular melanoma. ... The detached retina was caused by a cancerous tumor that had wrapped around Hensley’s optic nerve.

A 55-year-old white female presented to our clinics for a comprehensive eye examination. Her ocular history was significant for a choroidal nevus in the right eye and a choroidal melanoma in the ...

Keeping an Eye on Melanoma – Warren R. Heymann, MD, explores melanoma-associated retinopathy May 18, 2021 Warren R. Heymann, MD Dermatology World Insights and Inquiries. Share ...

Some of these treatments could enable retina specialists to take on uveal melanoma in their own offices, rather than referring patients to oncologists as they do now. The cancer has long bedeviled ...

The detached retina was caused by a cancerous tumor that had wrapped around Hensley’s optic nerve. She was diagnosed with ocular melanoma that began when the freckle in the back of her eye ...