Retinoblastoma treated by freezing.

نویسندگان

  • A C Molteno
  • J S Griffiths
  • P B Marcus
  • J J Van der Walt
چکیده

The effect of cryotherapy on intraocular neoplasms is disappointing, except in the case of retinoblastoma, which is readily destroyed by freezing and in which cures have been reported by Lincoff, Maclean, and Long (I967) and Rubin (I969). This communication reports the effect of cryotherapy on the second eye in a case of bilateral retinoblastoma, in which complete histological examination of the treated eye by serial sections was carried out after death, which was caused by metastases from the grossly involved first eye.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The British journal of ophthalmology

دوره 55 7  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1971