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ArticleFrontiers in medicine2024

Case report: Clinical and genetic features of pediatric choroidal melanoma.

Paola Valente, Angela Galardi, Angela Di Giannatale, Antonino Romanzo, Antonio Novelli, Valeria Orlando, Marta Colletti, Ida Russo, Rita De Vito, Giancarlo Iarossi and 3 more

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Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Paola Valente *Ophtalmology Unit, IRCCS, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy.
Angela Galardi *Hematology/Oncology and Cell and Gene Therapy Unit, IRCCS, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy.
Angela Di GiannataleHematology/Oncology and Cell and Gene Therapy Unit, IRCCS, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy.
Antonino RomanzoOphtalmology Unit, IRCCS, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy.
Antonio NovelliTranslational Cytogenomics Research Unit, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Valeria OrlandoTranslational Cytogenomics Research Unit, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Marta CollettiHematology/Oncology and Cell and Gene Therapy Unit, IRCCS, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy.
Ida RussoHematology/Oncology and Cell and Gene Therapy Unit, IRCCS, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy.
Rita De VitoLaboratories, Pathology Unit, IRCCS, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy.
Giancarlo IarossiOphtalmology Unit, IRCCS, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy.
Sergio PetroniOphtalmology Unit, IRCCS, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy.
Lorenzo SinibaldiMedical Genetics Unit, Bambino Gesù IRCCS Pediatric Hospital, Rome, Italy.
Luca BuzzonettiOphtalmology Unit, IRCCS, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Uveal melanoma (UM) is the second most common type of primary melanoma in adults, but it is extremely rare in children. We report a 12-year-old boy with a rare juvenile case of UM characterized by specific clinical and genetic features, including eye imaging and cytogenetic analysis. The tumor was analyzed using immunohistochemistry in order to confirm the clinical diagnosis and using next-generation sequencing (NGS) in order to investigate the correlation between pathological features and prognosis. The NGS revealed a somatic mutation in the GNAQ gene. Furthermore, we established a primary cell line (Opbg-UM1) to better understand the biology of this tumor in the pediatric setting. However, our case identified several factors predictive of poor prognosis, such as tumor proximity to the fovea and optic disc, large size, lack of pigmentation with mushroom configuration in category T2, and a complex karyotype showing numerical abnormalities on chromosome 6 and a mosaic loss of the Y chromosome in blood and in the primary cell line. This mutation may represent a poor prognostic factor in older children with UM.

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cancerGNAQ geneoncologypediatricuveal melanoma

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PMID40151649
PMCPMC11949099

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