Feyza Çalış Karanfil, Ahmet Kaan Gündüz, Ömür Özlenen Gündüz, Funda Seher Özalp Ateş
PURPOSE: To evaluate clinical and demographic characteristics and factors affecting recurrence, metastasis, and survival in conjunctival melanoma (CM). METHODS: The clinical records of 45 patients who were treated for CM between October 1998 and June 2022 were retrospectively evaluated. Age, gender, presence of underlying conjunctival nevus-primary acquired melanosis (PAM), tumor stage according to the 8th edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging system, tumor basal diameter, tumor thickness, lymph node (LN) involvement, metastasis, presence of tumor at the surgical margin, treatment method, need for adjuvant therapy, local tumor control, recurrence, and survival were recorded...
August 28, 2023: International Ophthalmology