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Malignant uveal melanoma is the most common intraocular tumor in adults. Despite very good local treatment results, patients` survival has not improved in the last decades. The main cause of death is metastatic spread, which occurs with a variable time delay after tumor discovery in 50 % of patients. After metastasis development the mean survival rate decreases to less than 6 months. Progression t...

Objective: Course of progression of the malignant choroidal melanoma diagnosed in T2 stage up to stage T4 with infiltration of the orbit. Case report 41 year old patient  dentified with intraocular malignant melanoma in the year 2005, documentation of disease progression and disease. Access to treatment of intraocular malignant melanoma in stage T1 - T2 in the last decade has changed from a radica...

The area of ophthalmooncology includes not only intraocular tumors but also adnexal and extraocular tumors, relatively rare malignancies. To get valid data and to study the incidence, diagnosis and treatment is extremely difficult. The most frequently occurring intraocular tumor in adults is malignant melanoma, in children it is retinoblastoma. We present the results of the nationwide group of pat...