Differential diagnosis of intraocular neoplasms with ultrasonography.

In the past five years A- and B-mode echography were used in the differential diagnosis of intraocular tumours (174 patients) and numerous cases with mimicking lesions. By using the 7200 A-scan equipment and distinct investigation techniques and giving attention to all aspects (quantitative, kinetic, and topographic) of the obtained echogram, the detection of the tumours involved in this study (choroidal melanoma, choroidal hemangioma, choroidal metastases, and retinoblastoma), is almost 99%. The accuracy in the differentiation of these tumours appears to be over 90%. Most of the false positives occur in the differentiation between choroidal melanomas and choroidal metastases.