Vascular tumors of the choroid and retina

Abstract

Vascular tumors of the retina and choroid can be seen occasionally. In the following article, the key clinical and diagnostic features of the major retinal and choroidal vascular tumors, their systemic associations, and the literature pertaining to the most currently available treatment strategies are reviewed.

Keywords

• Ciliary body
• choroid
• eye
• iris
• melanoma
• metastasis
• prognosis
• tumor
• uvea
• Chemotherapy
• intravitreal chemotherapy
• intra-arterial chemotherapy
• intravenous chemotherapy
• periocular chemotherapy
• retinoblastoma
• Subtenon′s chemotherapy
• treatment
• Autoflouroscence
• enhanced depth imaging
• eye
• gene expression profiling
• malignancy
• metastasis
• monosomy 3
• nevus
• optical coherence tomography
• tumor
• uveal melanoma
• Choroid
• enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography
• hemangioma
• lymphoma
• melanocytosis
• melanoma
• metastasis
• nevus
• osteoma
• tumor
• Choroid
• Eye
• metastases
• metastasis
• tumor
• uvea
• Astrocytic hamartoma
• enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography
• hemangioblastoma
• retina
• retinoblastoma
• tumor
• Cavernous hemangioma
• choroidal hemangioma
• retinal capillary hemangioma
• retinal vasoproliferative tumor