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A Magnetic Resonance Imaging Diagnostic Dilemma: Diffuse Infiltrating Retinoblastoma Versus Coats’ Disease

Anna Grabowska, MD; Jesús Peralta Calvo, MD, PhD; Amelia Fernandez-Zubillaga, MD, PhD; Juan Carlos Saenz Rios, MD; José Abelairas Gómez, MD, PhD

  • Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
  • DOI: 10.3928/01913913-20100818-10
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Abstract

A 6-year-old boy presented with neovascular glaucoma secondary to total retinal detachment. Magnetic resonance imaging findings suggested diffuse infiltrating retinoblastoma. Enucleation was subsequently performed and led to a final histopathological diagnosis of advanced Coats’ disease. Diffuse infiltrating retinoblastoma and advanced Coats’ disease can be indistinguishable from each other on magnetic resonance imaging.

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From the Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain.

The authors have no financial or proprietary interest in the materials presented herein.

Address correspondence to Anna Grabowska, MD, Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital La Paz, Paseo Castellana 261, Madrid, 28046 Spain. E-mail: annagr@go2.pl

doi: 10.3928/01913913-20100818-10

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