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.

Choroidal hemangioma

The presence of multiple hemangiomas in the choroid. These are generally reddish or orange or can have increased pigmentation maiking them difficult to distinguish from choroidal melanomas.


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PMID (PMCID)
8570155
 MALE
Diffuse choroidal hemangioma: report of a clinicopathological study in a 4-year-old boy.
Riss JM, Girard NJ, Proust H, Lebreuil G, Raybaud CA, Ridings B.
Ophthalmologica. 1995;209(5):284-8.
Diffuse choroidal hemangioma occurring in childhood and unrelated to the Sturge-Weber syndrome is a rare condition that should be included in the differential diagnosis of retinoblastoma.
8278161
 FEMALE Infant
Malignant melanoma in ten-month-old patient diagnosed by magnetic resonance imaging.
Joo CK, Kim KB, An KH, Lee HY, Kim JH.
Ophthalmologica. 1993;206(1):51-3.
Retinoblastoma or neurofibroma was suspected from the clinical diagnosis, and from the tomographic point of view, it could be choroidal hemangioma, however, the MRI study, unexpectedly suggested the possibility of choroidal malignant melanoma, and it could be confirmed by the results of a histopathologic examination.