Table 1.
Published reports on the direction of correlation between clinical features and growth of a small choroidal melanocytic lesion
| Author | Quantitative parameters |
Qualitative data |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| base diameter | height | orange pigment | Subretinal fluid | drusen | RPE atrophy | juxtapapillary location | symptoms | |
| Gass et al. [1] | Positive | Positive | Positive | Positive | Negative | Negative | NA | Positive |
| Augsburger et al. [11] | Positive | Positive | Positive | Positive | NS | NS | Positive | Positive |
| Butler et al. [7] | NS | Positive | Positive | Positive | NS | NS | NS | Positive |
| COMS [5] | Positive | Positive | Positive | NS | Negative | Negative | NS | NA |
| Singh et al. [9] | NS | Positive | Positive | NS | NS | NS | Positive | Positive |
| Shields et al. [3] | NS | Positive | Positive | Positive | NS | NS | Positive | Positive |
| Shields et al. [14] | Positive | Positive | Positive | Positive | NS | NS | NS | Positive |
RPE, retinal pigment epithelium; NA, not assessed; NS, not significant.