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RETINOBLASTOMA

Originally posted on @retina.rocks 05/02/2022

This is a 3YO female with a history of bilateral retinoblastoma and prior enucleation of the right eye. It is a follow-up of a previously posted case (11/7/21).

Optos imaging of the left eye shows an active retinoblastoma with complete regression following 6 months of treatment, which included intra-arterial chemotherapy and cryotherapy.

Learning Points:

Small tumors can be treated with focal therapies such as laser therapy, cryotherapy, or radioactive plaque therapy.

Larger tumors are treated with chemotherapy (most commonly intra-arterial through the ophthalmic artery and occasionally systemic). Chemotherapy has dramatically decreased the need for enucleation.