DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2018.v06i09.010

Pages: 648-650

Cardiac metastases are much more common than primary cardiac malignant tumors as reported in the literature. Choroidal melanoma is a very aggressive type of tumor. "If you are newly diagnosed with a primary choroidal 'intraocular' melanoma, you are likely to have no signs or symptoms of metastatic melanoma. Even with total body PET/CT imaging, less than 4% of patients are found to have their melanomas spread to other parts of their body at the time of diagnosis of their eye tumor. Uveal melanoma is the most common primary intraocular malignancy in adults. It is associated with a high rate of distant tumor spread and consequent mortality.