Small choroidal melanoma and pseudomelanomas: methods of differential diagnostics (literature review). Part 2
https://doi.org/10.21516/2072-0076-2020-13-2-88-98
Abstract
The first part of the literature review described the ophthalmoscopic picture of the small choroidal melanoma and pseudomelanomas [ROJ, 2019; 12 (4): 99–108]. This is the second part of the review, which describes the features characteristic of small uveal melanoma and pseudomelanomas, revealed by fluorescence angiography and autofluorescence. Typical properties of fluorescence and autofluorescence are presented for every disease of the eye fundus studied: small choroidal melanoma, choroidal nevus, circumscribed choroidal hemangioma, melanocytoma, choroidal metastatic carcinoma, congenital hypertrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium, late-stage age-related macular degeneration, focal retinochoroiditis of the posterior pole, organized subretinal hemorrhage, retinal hemangioma. The attention was focused on the similarity of angiographic and autofluorescence symptoms of the diseases under study. The need for new differential diagnostic criteria was emphasized.
About the Author
E. B. Myakoshina
Helmholtz National Medical Research Center of Eye Diseases
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Elena B. Myakoshina – Cand. of Med. Sci., researcher ophthalmooncology and radiology department
14/19, Sadovaya-Chernogryazskaya St., Moscow, 105062
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