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The Authors reproduce a series of echographs taken over a period of time in three cases of choroidal metastasis, clinically characterised by a turbulent growth rate, and echo-graphically by anomalies when compared with typical metastases.
The first case, a thymoma metastasis, showed a very similar ultrasound pattern to that of a choroidal melanoma. The second, a flat-cell infiltrating carcinoma in the lung, at first sight this seemed an enormous angioma, owing to its domeshape and rather high reflectivity, but which showed a marked endotumorous vascularization. The third case, a bronchial adenocarcinoma, had a lenticolar mass with medium-high reflectivity, that in the follow-up showed a rapid growth with prevalent lateral extension.
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Ravalli, L., Perri, P., Monari, P., Chiarelli, M., Ziosi, M., Mazzeo, V. (1993). Three cases of choroidal metastases with rapid growth and atypical echographic characteristics. In: Till, P. (eds) Ophthalmic Echography 13. Documenta Ophthalmologica Proceedings Series, vol 55. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1846-0_28
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