Practical Guide to Diagnosing and Treating Ocular Tumors

Maura Di Nicola is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami, FL. She specializes in ocular oncology, uveitis, and medical retina. She spent two years as a research associate on the ocular oncology service at the University of Cincinnati and completed fellowships in ocular oncology at Wills Eye Hospital and University of Cincinnati. She subsequently completed a fellowship in uveitis and medical retina at University of Illinois in Chicago. She grew up in Italy, where she attended San Raffaele University for medical school and University of Milan for ophthalmology residency. Her research interests include diagnosis and treatment of adult and pediatric tumors, as well as ocular inflammatory diseases, with a focus on multimodal imaging.Basil K. Williams Jr. is a board-certified ophthalmologist and an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami, FL. He is the department’s Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and specializes in ocular oncology and vitreoretinal surgery and diseases. He completed his residency, vitreoretinal fellowship and chief residency at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute followed by an ocular oncology fellowship at Wills Eye Hospital. Prior to joining faculty in Miami, he was the Director of Ocular Oncology and held the Mary Knight Asbury Endowed Chair at the University of Cincinnati. He was born in St. George’s Grenada and grew up in the Bronx, NY. His research interests pertain to health care disparities, adult and pediatric surface and intraocular tumors, and vitreoretinal surgical topics.

• SECTION I – Diagnostic Modalities1. Slit Lamp Photography2. Fundus photography3. Fundus Autofluorescence and Near-Infrared Imaging4. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) Anterior Segment OCT Swept-source OCT OCT angiography5. Fluorescein Angiography and Indocyanine Green Angiography6. Ultrasonography A-scan and B-scan ultrasonography Ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM) Doppler ultrasonography7. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Computed Tomography (CT)8. Diagnostic Interventions Fine-needle Aspiration Biopsy (FNAB) Vitrector-assisted retinal and choroidal biopsies Diagnostic vitrectomy Liquid biopsySECTION II – Treatment Modalities9. Local Therapies10. Plaque brachytherapy11. Teletherapy External Beam Proton Beam Stereotactic Radiotherapy12. Topical and Intralesional Chemotherapy13. Systemic Chemotherapy14. Immunotherapy and Targeted Therapy15. Intra-arterial Chemotherapy16. Intravitreal Chemotherapy17. Surgery of the Conjunctiva18. Intraocular surgery19. Enucleation and Exenteration