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Tumours .. Retinal and optic nerve head tumours …

Tumours .. Retinal and optic nerve head tumours … . It is the most common PRIMARY intraocular malignancy of childhood , even so it is rare and occurring about 1:20 000 live births and accounts for 3% of all childhood cancers . Genetics :

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Tumours .. Retinal and optic nerve head tumours …

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  1. Tumours ..Retinal and optic nerve head tumours …

  2. It is the most common PRIMARY intraocular malignancy of childhood , even so it is rare and occurring about 1:20 000 live births and accounts for 3% of all childhood cancers . Genetics : Retinoblastoma results from malignant transformation of primitive retinal cells BEFORE final differentiation . Because these cells disappear within the first few years of life , the tumour is rarely seen after 3 years age . Retinoblastoma may be heritable or non-heritable . Retinoblastoma

  3. Heritable retinoblastoma ( germline ) Accounts for 40% . Only one allele of RPE1(tumoursupressor gene) has mutated in all body cells . - when a further mutogenic event (second hit )affects the 2nd allele , the cell undergoes malignant transformation . Because all retinal precursor cells contain the initial mutation ,these children develop bilateral and multifocal tumours . Familial cases also carry a predisposition to non ocular cancers most common pinealoblastoma (trilateral retinoblastoma ) and osteosarcoma

  4. Non heritable retinoblastoma(somatic ) : Accounts for 60% . Unilateral . Not transmissible. Does not predispose the patient to increased risk of second non ocular cancers . - 85% of pts with unilateral retinoblastoma fall into this category .

  5. Presentation of retinoblastoma : - The majority present within the first 2 years. - Children with bilateral tumours tend to present earlier than those with unilateral ( average of 12 months ) . Symptoms : 1- leukocoria (white pupillary reflex) most common 60%. 2- strabismus , 2nd most common. 3- 2ndry glaucoma , uncommon . 4- unilateral iris invasion , manifest as : Multifocal nodules, resembling granulomatousinflammation,pseudo-hypopyon.

  6. Therefore, it’s important to consider retinoblastoma in the differential diagnosis of unusual chronic uveitis in children . 5- Orbital inflammation : mimicking orbital or perseptalcellulitis may occur with necrotic tumours . 6-Orbital invasion. 7- Metastatic disease : involving regional lymph nodes and brain , before detecting of ocular involvment it’s rare . 8- Raised intracranial pressure : due to trilateral retinoblastoma , before diagnosis of ocular involvment it’s very rare . 9- On routine examination of a pt known to be at risk .

  7. Signs : 1- An early intraretinaltumour is a placoid white lesion . 2- An endopathictumour grows inwards TOWARDS the vitreous , projectin from the retinal surface as a white cottage cheese-like mass, with surface blood vessels. 3-An exophytictumour grows OUTWARDS as a subretinalmultiobulated white mass . It detaches the retina and may be difficult to visualize if the subretinal fluid is deep .

  8. Placoid shape

  9. Treatment : TMT is related to tumour size ,location ,and associated findings such as retinal detachment , subretinal and vitreous tumour seeds and the state of the fellow eye . 1- brachytherapy 2- chemotherapy 3- external beam radiotherapy 4- Enucleation :

  10. Prognostic factors : The overall related mortality is 2-5% and is related to the follwoings : 1- tumour size and location small posterior tumours do best but there is no significant difference between endophytic and exophytic type . 2- cellular differentiation : the mortality rate of pts whose tumours have abundant rosettes much less than in those with highly undifferentiated tumours . 3- optic nerve involvement : beyond the point of surgical transection is associated with high mortality . 4- invasion of the choroid or vortex veins facilitates haematogenous spread and therefore of adverse prognostic significance . 5- extrascleral spread carries a grave prognosis .

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