Epidemiological and histopathological aspects of ocular melanomas in Northeastern Romania
Rom J Morphol Embryol. 2024 Jan-Mar;65(1):35-44. doi: 10.47162/RJME.65.1.05.ABSTRACTOcular melanoma is a rare but complex disease in current medical practice. Our retrospective study spans over a period of 28 years and analyzed uveal and conjunctival melanomas that were consecutively admitted, diagnosed, and treated in the 2nd Ophthalmology Clinic of Prof. Dr. Nicolae Oblu Emergency Clinical Hospital, Iaşi, Romania. The patients were selected from the records of the Department of Pathology of our Hospital, being diagnosed by standard histopathological techniques. The aim of this study was to summarize the epidemiological and pathological aspects of uveal and conjunctival melanomas in Northeastern region of Romania. In our study, we did not notice a predilection of uveal and conjunctival melanoma to one particular gender. The most common histological subtypes of ocular melanomas were the heavily pigmented spindle cell subtype, followed by the epithelioid subtype. Our patients sought medical help in a timely manner, before the systemic invasion of the disease could develop.PMID:38527982 | DOI:10.47162/RJME.65.1.05
Source: Romanian Journal of Morphology and Embryology - Category: General Medicine Authors: Claudia Florida Costea Andrei Ionu ţ Cucu Gabriela Floren ţa Dumitrescu Anca Sava Gabriela Dimitriu Tina Bo ţoc Mihaela Roxana Popescu C ătălin Mihai Buzdugă Ana Maria Dumitrescu Alexandra St ărică Georgiana Macovei Iulian Prutianu Lauren ţiu And Source Type: research
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