OBJECUIVE: To observe the therapeutic efficacy of gamma;-knife/lymphokine activated killing cells (LAK)in chorold malignant melanoma (CMM).
METHODS:Five cases of CMM had keen treated by retrobulbar injection of LAK cells and gamma;-knife irradiation at multiple sites.Ophthalmologic,imageologic, fundus fluorescein angiographic and T lymphocyte subset examinations were done before and after treatment. Tile follow-up period of this series of cases was 6-24 months.
RESUILS:Thc CMM of 4 in 5 treated cases became atrophic and withered up clinically after gamma;-kinfe/LAK therapy. Among the 4 cases,2 of them had been followed up for more than 2 years,and the other 2 for 20 and 14 months respectively. The tumor of the 5th patient wko was followed up for 6 months after treatment,reduced to 3/5 of the original size,and no blood flow was found within thee tumor mass under the clinical examination.
CONCLUSION :The gamma;-knife/LAK therapy was effective in treating CMM in saving the affected eye from being enucleated.
Chin J Ocul Fundus Dis,1997,13: 96- 98）
