Uveal melanoma is the most common primary malignancy of the eye and frequently leads to metastatic death. Until the mid-20th Century, the only treatment for uveal melanoma was enucleation.
The following is a summary of “Survival in uveal melanoma patients is linked to genetic variation at HERC2 SNP rs12913832,” published in the September 2024 issue of Ophthalmology by Gelmi et al. Uveal ...
Background Paraneoplastic melanocytic proliferation (bilateral diffuse uveal melanocytic proliferation, BDUMP) is a rare but devastating disease that causes progressive visual loss in patients who ...
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