Staging uveal melanoma with whole-body positron-emission tomography/computed tomography and abdominal ultrasound: Low incidence of metastatic disease, high incidence of second primary cancers

CONCLUSIONS: Whole-body PET/CT and abdominal ultrasound complement each other in the staging of uveal melanoma. Benign hepatic abnormalities found using ultrasound is common. Of importance, a second asymptomatic primary malignancy associated with uveal melanoma was detected almost one in 10 patients.

Source: Middle East African Journal of Ophthalmology - July 18, 2018 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Victoria M L Cohen Efthymia Pavlidou Joanna Costa Amit K Arora Teressa Szyszko Mandeep S Sagoo Peter Szlosarek Source Type: research