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Ultrasound features are given for three choroidal tumours, two melanomas and one hemangioma. After enucleation, the latter case answered some of the questions raised in a previous paper (Fledelius & Scherfig 1988). The diagnosis could be confirmed histologically, but ultrasonically the tumour still appeared larger and thicker than estimated by the ophthalmoscope, and now also from the specimen. A melanoma in a 15-year-old female appeared like a cyst, also by ultrasound, but transvitreal biopsy gave the diagnosis. The last case study describes the spontaneous disintegration of a melanoma in an 83-year-old man, illustrated by current ultrasound examinations.
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Fledelius, H.C., Prause, J.U., Scherfig, E. (1993). Tumours of the choroid. 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_32
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