Resonancia magnética en el diagnostico y valoración de los melanomas de la coroides
- Carmela Capeans Tomé
- Manuel Sánchez-Salorio
- Antonio Berges Pacheco
- MJ Copena Martínez
- I. Pereiro
ISSN: 0365-6691
Year of publication: 1992
Volume: 63
Issue: 1
Pages: 9-16
Type: Article
More publications in: Archivos de la Sociedad Española de Oftalmologia
Abstract
We study 16 consecutive cases of presumed choroidal melanoma. In these cases we make the diagnosis by conventional explorations as ophthalmoscopy, echography and fluorescein studies. We make in all of these patients magnetic resonance. In eight cases, as our ophthalmoscopy exploration diagnosis ceVery probably mela nomas» we obtained a classical magnetic resonance melanoma patron (T1 hypersignal, T2 hyposignal). We don't detect, by magnetic resonance, on very small case. In seven cases appear an atypical patron (T1 hypersignal, T2 hypersignal). We comment the clinical circumstances that prove all of these findings.