Autofluorescence is a noninvasive, valuable diagnostic tool for assessment of intraocular tumours, based primarily on the effects on the overlying RPE. Some findings are strongly characteristic of certain tumours, particularly the bright hyperautofluorescence overlying small choroidal melanoma and the dark hypoautofluorescence of congenital hypertrophy of the RPE.
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