Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma of the caruncle in a 4 year-old boy: case report.

Rhabdomyosarcoma is a rare tumor, with an annual incidence of 4.3 cases per million children. Even thought, it is the most common soft tissue sarcoma in childhood, with a mean age of 6 to 8 years at diagnosis.

Episcleral brachytherapy for uveal melanoma: analysis of 136 cases.

Purpose: To assess the results of I-125 episcleral brachytherapy (EB) in uveal melanoma: tumour control, visual acuity (VA), eye preservation and survival.

Patients: Prospective and consecutive study of patients with a diagnosis of uveal melanoma at the Ocular Oncology Unit in the Valladolid University Teaching Hospital treated with EB between September 1997 and June 2008. Ocular examination and extraocular and systemic extension data were registered in a database at the time of the diagnosis and during the follow-up.

High-dose iodine-125 episcleral brachytherapy for circumscribed choroidal haemangioma.

Aims: To evaluate episcleral plaque radiotherapy with high-dose (125)I for the treatment of circumscribed choroidal haemangioma (CCH).

Methods: A retrospective review was performed of patients treated for CCH between 1995 and 2007. Brachytherapy was performed with ROPES plaques loaded with (125)I seeds with a target apex dose of 48 Gy.

[Ocular retention in patients with uveal melanoma managed by a multimodality approach].

Objective: to analyze ocular survival in eyes with uveal melanoma treated with conservative therapies, in a centre that applies all treatment modalities.

Methods: Patients diagnosed with uveal melanoma and treated between September 1990 and April 2007 were included in an historical cohorts study.

Results: 273 patients were included.

Cavitary choroidal melanoma.

Case Report: We report an unusual case of cavitary choroidal melanoma. The results of ultrasonography, magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, and immunohistochemical studies are presented for a 38-year-old woman who developed an amelanotic tumor in the posterior choroid. B-scan ultrasonography disclosed intratumoral cavitations.

[Surgical treatment of acquired myogenic eyelid ptosis].

Objective: To report the surgical outcome of aponeurosis surgery in patients with acquired myogenic eyelid ptosis and describe surgical guidelines for their correction.

Methods: The clinical records of two patients with acquired myogenic eyelid ptosis after surgical correction were reviewed.

Results: In two patients with acquired myogenic eyelid ptosis and barely good levator function, levator resection surgery was performed.

[Ocular hypertension as the principal indicator of onset of uveal melanoma].

Purpose: To present a series of patients with uveal melanoma masquerading as ocular hypertension.

Methods: Patients diagnosed with uveal melanoma were reviewed, selecting those cases with initial presentation as secondary unilateral glaucoma. Clinical and histopathological information useful for prognosis was examined, such as anterior border localization, size and shape of the tumor, associated ocular pathology, cell type and degree of extraocular extension.