Retinoblastoma

A rare eye tumor disease representing the most common intraocular malignancy in children. It is a life threatening neoplasia but is potentially curable and it can be hereditary or non hereditary, unilateral or bilateral.

Failure to thrive

Failure to thrive (FTT) refers to a child whose physical growth is substantially below the norm.


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PMID (PMCID)
910860
MIXED_SAMPLE Infant, Newborn
Retinoblastoma in a patient with a 13qXp translocation.
Cross HE, Hansen RC, Morrow G 3rd, Davis JR.
Am J Ophthalmol. 1977;84(4):548-54.
An infant girl with failure to thrive and bilateral retinoblastoma had a translocation of the long arm of chromosome 13 to the short arm of the X chromosome, and possible loss of a portion of the q 14 band.