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Retinoblastomas Initially Misdiagnosed as Primary Ocular Inflammations
Walter R. Stafford, MD;
Myron Yanoff, MD;
Benjamin L. Parnell, BS
Arch Ophthalmol. 1969;82(6):771-773.
Abstract
Retinoblastomas were misdiagnosed as primary ocular inflammations without suspicion of neoplasm in 6.6% of 618 cases and as disease other than ocular inflammation in 8.3%—a total, therefore, of 14.9% misdiagnosed. Misdiagnosis and subsequent delay in therapy appeared to result in a markedly increased mortality in those cases. Intraocular retinoblastomas must be considered in the differential diagnosis of ocular inflammations of childhood.
Author Affiliations
Washington, DC
From the Registry of Ophthalmic Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC. Dr. Stafford is now at the Department of Ophthalmology, St. Louis University Hospitals, St. Louis, and Dr. Yanoff is now at the Department of Ophthalmology and Laboratory of Surgical Pathology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 11, 1969.
Reprint requests to the Ophthalmic Pathology Branch, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC 20305.
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