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.

Anterior staphyloma

A localized defect in the anterior eye wall with protrusion of uveal tissue due to alterations in scleral thickness and structure.


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PMID (PMCID)
8295368
MALE
Occurrence of sequential intraocular tumors: malignant medulloepithelioma subsequent to retinoblastoma.
Minoda K, Hirose Y, Sugano I, Nagao K, Kitahara K.
Jpn J Ophthalmol. 1993;37(3):293-300.
A 13-year-old boy, whose bilateral retinoblastoma had been treated by enucleation (OD) and irradiation (OS), developed anterior staphyloma (OS) necessitating the second enucleation.