PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - D H Char
AU  - D C Heilbron
AU  - R P Juster
AU  - R D Stone
TI  - Choroidal melanoma growth patterns.
AID  - 10.1136/bjo.67.9.575
DP  - 1983 Sep 01
TA  - British Journal of Ophthalmology
PG  - 575--578
VI  - 67
IP  - 9
4099  - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/67/9/575.short
4100  - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/67/9/575.full
SO  - Br J Ophthalmol1983 Sep 01; 67
AB  - Thirty patients with choroidal melanoma in whom tumour thickness was found to increase on serial examination were retrospectively studied. Often when tumours started to increase in thickness, after a period of relative quiescence, the growth rate was relatively rapid. Increased tumour thickness was associated with increased tumour growth. During the phase of active tumour growth the height of the lesion tended to increase more than exponentially. Possible inadvertent biases in the selection of the patients studied prohibit wide-ranging conclusions from these data.