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.

Retinitis

Inflammation of the retina of the eye.


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PMID (PMCID)
26638547
 FEMALE Infant
Effective treatment of cytomegalovirus retinitis and neuritis with retrobulbar ganciclovir after treosulfan-based autologous bone marrow transplant.
Raciborska A, Ussowicz M, Prost M, Bilska K, Rodriguez-Galindo C, Rychlowska-Pruszynska M.
Klin Oczna. 2015;117(2):101-3.
We describe the case of a 16-month-old girl with neuroblastoma and chronic lymphocytopenia due to chemotherapy and treosulfan-containing megatherapy who developed cytomegalovirus retinitis and neuritis.
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 FEMALE
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.