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Helen Dimaras, PhD; Vikas Khetan, MD; William Halliday, MD; Elise Héon, MD, FRCSC; Helen S. L. Chan, MBBS; Brenda L. Gallie, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 2009;127(8):1066-1068.

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Retinoma is a benign, elevated, gray, translucent retinal mass with cottage cheese–like calcification and hyperpigmented retinal pigment epithelium.¹ Histopathological features include abundant fleurettes and nonproliferative cells. We report a case in which an underlying retinoma was revealed by collapse and massive vitreous dispersion of the overlying unilateral retinoblastoma after 1 cycle of chemotherapy. Pathological analysis of the enucleated eye confirmed retinoma.

Report of a Case

A 2-year-old boy had leukokoria in the left eye. The left eye contained group D retinoblastoma,² an endophytic posterior pole tumor with inferior vitreous seeding (Figure 1A). The right eye appeared unaffected.

Figure appears in full text version. Figure 1. Retinoma discovered in a retinoblastoma eye removed after the main active tumor dispersed throughout the vitreous following 1 cycle of chemotherapy. A, The child had unilateral macular retinoblastoma (International Intraocular Retinoblastoma . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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