METHOD FOR PREDICTING DISEASE FLOW AT CHOROID MELANOMA Russian patent published in 2006 - IPC A61B8/10 

FIELD: medicine, ultrasound diagnostics.

SUBSTANCE: one should carry out ultrasound testing for the mentioned intra-ocular tumor in B-mode. Due to biometry it is necessary to detect its elevation in mm - parameter X₁. In the mode of circulatory coding: chromatic mapping or energetic dopplerography one should determine the degree of melanoma vascularization - parameter X₂. It should be coded with digits 1 in case of moderate vascularization and 2 - at low-vascular variant or 3 - at hyper-vascular tumor. In the mode of spectral dopplerography one should detect average value of peripheral vascular resistance in neoplasm route RI - parameter X₃. Based upon the values of these parameters one should calculate the value "Y": Y=0.71+0.0778(X₁)+0.63(X₂)-1.257(X₃). At achieving the value Y<1.5 it is possible to predict favorable flow of choroid melanoma. At values being Y≥1.5 one should predict unfavorable flow of the above-mentioned disease.

EFFECT: higher accuracy and efficiency of prediction.

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