METHOD FOR PREDICTING CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT COURSE OF UVEAL MELANOMA Russian patent published in 2002 - IPC

FIELD: medicine. SUBSTANCE: method involves diagnosing uveal melanoma by means of formula T=20.5 - 2.52 X - 0.4 Y, where T is expected metastases occurrence time in months, X is the disease development stage according to TNM system expressed in points as follows. T1NOMO - 1 point, T2NOMO - 2 points, T3NOMO - 3 points and T4NOMO - 4 points. Y is the total of zones involved into tumor development process evaluated in points as follows. ! point is isolated tumor of ciliary body. 2 points is related to juxtapapillary tumor. 3 points is related to postequatorial tumor. 4 points is related to equatorial tumor. 5 points is related to pre-equatorial tumor. The parameters are used for predicting metastases occurrence time. EFFECT: high accuracy of prediction. 1 tbl