Successful treatment of an exudative choroidal hemangioma with oral propranolol in a 10-year-old boy
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Oral propranolol for exudative retinal detachment in diffuse choroidal hemangioma.
T he main abnormality of the uveal tract in patients with Sturge-Weber syndrome is diffuse choroidal hemangioma (DCH). Diffuse choroidal hemangioma can lead to a total retinal detachment and secondary neovascular glaucoma. Radiotherapy and photodynamic therapy are currently the preferred methods of treatment. Low-dose lens-sparing radiotherapy or proton beam irradiation can induce tumor regress...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1091-8531
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaapos.2019.02.004