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Choroidal melanoma is a neoplasm of melanocytes and represents the most common primary intraocular malignancy in adults.
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Zebardast, N. (2016). Choroidal Melanoma. In: Medina, C., Townsend, J., Singh, A. (eds) Manual of Retinal Diseases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20460-4_35
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