Macedo, Sara Simões and Teixeira, Mónica and Correia, Andreia and Novais, António and Cabral, Cátia (2019) Ocular Melanoma Presenting as Masquerade Syndrome. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 6 (7). ISSN 2284-2594
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Abstract
A masquerade syndrome is an ophthalmological entity where a neoplasm mimics an inflammatory condition. Ocular melanoma (chiefly uveal) may present with symptoms suggestive of intraocular inflammation such as endogenous endophthalmitis. Ocular melanoma is most commonly found in middle-aged and older caucasian patients. One-third of all uveal melanoma cases present asymptomatically. Early diagnosis facilitates treatment before ocular melanoma reaches metastatic stage IV. Current therapy options for stage IV patients are palliative care and clinical trial participation.eed for clinicians to be aware of rare metastases at the time of diagnosis.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Ocular melanoma, intraocular haemorrhage, endogenous endophthalmitis, masquerade syndrome, metastasis |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) |
| Depositing User: | Chiara D'Arpa |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Nov 2020 20:26 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Nov 2020 20:26 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/19485 |
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