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Low-Dose External Beam Irradiation for Bilateral Diffuse Choroidal Hemangioma
Arch Ophthalmol. 1998;116:815-817.
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The diffuse choroidal hemangioma is an uncommon congenital vascular tumor associated with the Sturge-Weber syndrome.1 Visual loss is often secondary to nonrhegmatogenous retinal detachments, cystoid degeneration, photoreceptor loss, and fibrous transformation of the proliferated retinal pigment epithelium.1 The use of low-dose external beam irradiation has been reported as a possible treatment for nonrhegmatogenous retinal detachments associated with diffuse choroidal hemangioma.2 We describe a patient with Sturge-Weber syndrome, bilateral diffuse choroidal hemangiomas, and nonrhegmatogenous serous retinal detachments treated with low-dose external beam irradiation.
Report of a Case
An 8-year-old girl with bilateral facial nevus flammeus was examined at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, Fla, for progressive visual loss in her left eye of 8 days' duration. Six months previously, she had developed an exudative detachment in her right eye with decreased visual acuity to the 20/400 level.
Examination revealed a facial angioma involving the right forehead and eyelid, cheek, and nose and crossing to . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Reprints: Justin L.Gottlieb, MD, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Wisconsin, 2870 University Ave, Suite 206, Madison, WI 53705 (e-mail: Gottlieb@eyesee.ophth.wisc.edu).
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