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Arch Ophthalmol. 2002;120:393-395.

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The treatment of small choroidal melanocytic tumors is evolving because of the recognition of risk factors for growth and metastasis.^1-3 Ideally, the treatment of small melanocytic tumors would completely eradicate the tumor without compromising visual acuity. Cryotherapy has been used in a limited fashion for the treatment of choroidal melanomas.^4-6 Lincoff et al⁴ and Brovkina et al⁵ evaluated cryotherapy in small series of patients with medium-sized and large melanomas, but exudative retinal detachment and incomplete tumor destruction compromised treatment. We report the clinical and histopathologic findings in a patient treated with cryotherapy for a small, growing choroidal melanocytic tumor 125 months before death from unrelated causes.

Report of a Case

The patient was initially seen in August 1988 for a routine eye examination and was found to have a pigmented juxtapapillary choroidal lesion (Figure 1). By January 24, 1989, the lesion had clearly enlarged. Examination at that time showed visual acuity of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Corresponding author and reprints: David J. Wilson, MD, Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, 3375 SW Terwilliger Blvd, Portland, OR 97201-4197 (e-mail: wilsonda@ohsu.edu).