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Curie experience with transvitreal and transcleral FNAB
Author(s) -
CASSOUX N
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
acta ophthalmologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.534
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1755-3768
pISSN - 1755-375X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2013.3643.x
Subject(s) - medicine , melanoma , fine needle aspiration , monosomy , biopsy , radiology , metastasis , oncology , cancer , cancer research , biochemistry , chemistry , gene , karyotype , chromosome
Fine needle aspiration biopsies (FNAB) with different techniques have been recently developed during the management of intraocular tumors especially uveal melanoma. The need of a biopsy to diagnosed intraocular tumors remains rare. However in some difficult cases of achromic tumors FNAB can be helpful to distinguished achromic melanoma, metastasis, or choroidal malt lymphoma. FNAB is mainly used for choroidal melanoma prognostication. It has been shown that choroidal melanoma prognosis depends on well‐known clinical factor but also genetic factors within the tumor (monosomy 3 and 8q addition or GEP class II). Determination of patient prognosis by FNAB open the way to adjuvant chemotherapy for high risk patients. Different techniques can be used to obtain sufficient tumor samples and these different techniques will be exposed during this symposium. Curie experience using transcleral or transvitreal FNAB will be described.