2009, 403-418, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-68632-3_27

Pediatric Ocular Tumors and Simulating Lesions

Matthew W. Wilson

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Abstract

• The management of retinoblastoma has become more complex in the era of primary systemic chemotherapy.
• The management of retinoblastoma requires a multidisciplinary team composed of an ophthalmologist, pediatric oncologist, and radiation oncologist.
• Enucleation remains the standard of care for patients with massive unilateral disease in which the affected eye has limited visual potential and the other eye is normal.
• Any eye with limited visual potential in which retinoblastoma cannot be excluded should be enucleated.
• Retinoblastoma is a systemic disease; germ-line mutations of the RB1 gene lead to 30% mortality from second cancers.

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