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CASE REPORT
Year : 2019  |  Volume : 67  |  Issue : 5  |  Page : 704-706

Treatment of circumscribed choroidal hemangioma using CyberKnife: A viable alternative


1 Shree Bhagwan Mahavir Vitreoretinal Services Department, Sankara Nethralaya, College Road, Nungambakkam, Tamil Nadu, India
2 Department of Radiation Oncology and Cyberknife Services, Apollo Hospitals, Teynampet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Correspondence Address:
Dr. Pukhraj Rishi
Medical Research Foundation, Sankara Nethralaya, No 18, College Road, Nungambakkam, Chennai - 600 016, Tamil Nadu
India
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Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None


DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_1410_18

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Circumscribed choroidal hemangioma is a benign vascular hamartoma without systemic associations. For symptomatic cases, treatment options are photodynamic therapy (PDT), transpupillary thermotherapy (TTT), intravitreal injection of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), or radiation therapy. CyberKnife radiosurgery is an image-guided radiation therapy that delivers radiation to lesions anywhere in the body with an accuracy of 0.5 mm without damage to surrounding structures. We report a case of circumscribed choroidal hemangioma which was successfully treated with CyberKnife therapy. The literature search reveals cases of uveal melanoma, intraocular, and periocular lymphoma successfully treated with CyberKnife therapy. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on such treatment for choroidal hemangioma.


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