Research Article
Optical Coherence Tomography: An Adjunctive Tool for Differentiating between Choroidal Melanoma and Metastasis
Table 3
Optical coherence tomographic features of choroidal tumors in 50 eyes of 50 patients.
| | Feature | Melanoma () | Metastases () | Value |
| | Choroid | | | | | Irregular, (%) | 3 (10) | 11 (52) | 0.001 | | Lobulated, (%) | 5 (17) | 17 (81) | 0.000 | | RPE | | | | | Irregular, (%) | 23 (79) | 16 (80) | 0.855 | | Thickened, (%) | 15 (52) | 9 (45) | 0.568 | | Retina | | | | | Thickened, (%) | 14 (48) | 8 (38) | 0.569 | | Cystic, (%) | 1 (3) | 1 (5) | 0.839 | | Atrophic NS retina, (%) | 12 (43) | 6 (30) | 0.460 | | Subretinal | | | | | Subretinal fluid, (%) | 22 (76) | 20 (95) | 0.117 | | Hyperreflective spots, (%) | 9 (31) | 10 (48) | 0.281 |
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RPE = retinal pigment epithelium; NS = neurosensory.
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