Neuroblastoma

Neuroblastoma is a malignant tumor of neural crest cells, the cells that give rise to the sympathetic nervous system, which is observed in children.

Exudative retinal detachment

A type of retinal detachment arising from damage to the outer blood-retinal barrier that allows fluid to access the subretinal space and separate the neurosensory retina from the retinal pigment epithelium.


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Antiviral therapy with ganciclovir for cytomegalovirus retinitis and bilateral exudative retinal detachments in an immunocompromised child.
Rosecan LR, Laskin OL, Kalman CM, Haik BG, Ellsworth RM.
Ophthalmology. 1986;93(11):1401-7.
A child with bilateral cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis, vitritis, and exudative retinal detachments, who was in remission from stage IV neuroblastoma and status post-chemotherapy and autologous bone marrow transplantation, was treated with ganciclovir.