Resonancia magnética en el diagnostico y valoración de los melanomas de la coroides

  1. Carmela Capeans Tomé
  2. Manuel Sánchez-Salorio
  3. Antonio Berges Pacheco
  4. MJ Copena Martínez
  5. I. Pereiro
Journal:
Archivos de la Sociedad Española de Oftalmologia

ISSN: 0365-6691

Year of publication: 1992

Volume: 63

Issue: 1

Pages: 9-16

Type: Article

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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.