Additional primary malignancies in a Polish cohort of uveal melanoma patients: a review of 644 patients with long-term follow-up.

Aim: To investigate the frequency and location of additional primary malignancies in a Polish cohort of uveal melanoma (UM) patients registered in a single centre database.

Material And Method: Retrospective data analysis of patients treated for uveal melanoma at the Department of Ophthalmology, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poland between 1991 and 2017. Data on the diagnosis of the additional malignancies were obtained during the follow-up visits in our Department and/or from the Greater Poland Cancer Registry.

Surgical outcomes of unwrapped acrylic orbital implants: A review of 192 patients.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to report the results in a series of acrylic orbital implant placements without the use of wrapping material.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the records of the patients who underwent enucleation with acrylic orbital implant insertion without scleral wrapping at the Department of Ophthalmology, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poland, between 2013 and 2020.

Results: There were 192 patients: 102 women and 90 men, mean age: 60 years (range: 13-90 years).

Ruthenium brachytherapy for uveal melanoma - single institution experience.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to report on results of uveal melanoma treatment with ruthenium-106 (Ru) brachytherapy with long-term follow-up, in terms of local tumor control, eye retention rate, radiation retinopathy, and patients' survival.

Material And Methods: Medical records of patients treated with ruthenium plaque due to uveal melanoma at the Department of Ophthalmology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland, between 1994 and 2014 were retrospectively reviewed.

Results: We identified 126 patients: 53 men, 73 women, mean age 60.