Differential diagnosis of choroidal melanomas and nevi using scanning laser ophthalmoscopical indocyanine green angiography.

Abstract

Fluorescein angiography is one of several standard ancillary diagnostic techniques in the evaluation of suspected malignant choroidal melanoma. Indocyanine green choroidal angiography has improved visibility of the choroidal circulation in comparison with fluorescein angiography. Studies concerning the use of indocyanine green angiography in the differentiation between nevi and melanomas have been few and the results inconclusive. A case of a choroidal melanoma (verified by histopathological examination) and a nevus in the same eye is documented by fluorescein and indocyanine green choroidal angiography performed by scanning laser ophthalmoscopy. This modality may be considered in the evaluation of a suspected malignant choroidal melanoma.

• Authors: M V Andersen, E Scherfig, J U Prause
• Journal: Acta ophthalmologica Scandinavica (Acta Ophthalmol Scand) Vol. 73 Issue 5 Pg. 453-6 (Oct 1995) ISSN: 1395-3907 [Print] Denmark
• PMID: 8751128 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)

Chemical References

• Indocyanine Green

Topics

• Aged
• Choroid Neoplasms (diagnosis)
• Diagnosis, Differential
• Female
• Fluorescein Angiography
• Humans
• Indocyanine Green
• Lasers
• Melanoma (diagnosis)
• Neoplasms, Second Primary (diagnosis)
• Nevus, Pigmented (diagnosis)
• Ophthalmoscopes