[Prognostic factors of choroidal melanoma: an anatomo-clinical retrospective and statistical study of 76 enucleated cases].

The authors report the results of a retrospective study of 76 patients enucleated for a choroidal melanoma, in whom prognostic factors of survival were studied. The presence of metastasis at the time of diagnosis, the size of the tumor and the epithelioid cellular type are the most pejorative factors (though statistically not significant). A peak mortality can be observed between the second and the fourth year after enucleation. A predominance of the liver metastases is clearly established (75% of the metastases observed in our sample). We observed a majority of small tumors (40%) of spindle cell type (50%).