Spontaneous regression of bilateral retinoblastoma.

نویسندگان

  • G E Sanborn
  • J J Augsburger
  • J A Shields
چکیده

A 24-year-old black man was found to have bilateral, spontaneously regressed retinoblastoma that had previously been misdiagnosed as post-traumatic chorioretinal scarring. His son and half-brother both had bilateral viable retinoblastoma. The ophthalmoscopic and fluorescein angiographic features of this patient's fundus lesions included a calcified, whitish mass located centrally in one of the scars and a fine residual vascularity in another of the fundus lesions. The authors review the pertinent literature on spontaneous regression of retinoblastoma.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The British journal of ophthalmology

دوره 66 11  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1982