Nursing care of the choroidal melanoma patient
Servodidio, C.A.
Seminars in Perioperative Nursing 4(4): 211-219
1995
ISSN/ISBN: 1056-8670 PMID: 7581346 Document Number: 444806
A patient diagnosed with choroidal melanoma presents the ophthalmic nurse with a unique opportunity to practice one of the most challenging aspects of clinical and psychosocial nursing care. Although choroidal melanoma is a treatable cancer, this tumor has the ability to increase in size, to metastasize, and to cause death.