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.

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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PMID (PMCID)
28815057
(5554974)
 OTHER
Giant retinal tear after intra-arterial chemotherapy for advanced unilateral retinoblastoma.
Ventura CV, Berrocal AM, Thomson J, Ehlies FJ, Latiff A, Murray TG.
Int J Retina Vitreous. 2017;3:30.
We report the case of an 8-year-old girl with a late presentation of an advanced unilateral retinoblastoma associated to diffuse exudative retinal detachment in the right eye, classified as group E by the International Classification of Retinoblastoma.
28815057
(5554974)
 OTHER
Giant retinal tear after intra-arterial chemotherapy for advanced unilateral retinoblastoma.
Ventura CV, Berrocal AM, Thomson J, Ehlies FJ, Latiff A, Murray TG.
Int J Retina Vitreous. 2017;3:30.
We report the case of an 8-year-old girl with a late presentation of an advanced unilateral retinoblastoma associated to diffuse exudative retinal detachment in the right eye, classified as group E by the International Classification of Retinoblastoma.
25352900
 FEMALE
Coats' disease in Tanzania: first case report and literature review.
Rugwizangoga B, Mwabili T, Scanlan T, Meyer P, Kitinya J.
Afr Health Sci. 2014;14(3):763-8.
Coats' disease is an exudative retinal detachment with vascular telangiectasis occurring mostly in male children, the age group most affected by retinoblastoma.
15019391
 FEMALE Adult
Progressive enlargement of acquired retinal astrocytoma in 2 cases.
Shields CL, Shields JA, Eagle RC Jr, Cangemi F.
Ophthalmology. 2004;111(2):363-8.
To document 2 cases of progressively enlarging retinal astrocytoma that caused exudative retinal detachment, vitreous hemorrhage, and tumor seeding, simulating retinoblastoma in 1 case and choroidal melanoma in the other.