ABSTRACT
With future identification of effective chemotherapy new studies may be focused upon patients with localized disease to reduce radiation dosage or the need for immediate resection of all involved eys. In metastic retinoblastoma, chemotherapy seems ethical, however the toxicity and response rates can be monitored. Collaborative studies multicentre rials may be necessary. There are different classification to retinoblastoma: Reese Ellsworth, CCSG childrem Cancer Study Group, St. Jude's Research Hospital and others. to the Pediatric Depatment in A. C. Camargo, Säo Paulo, Brazil, are referred patients which more than a half percent are extra ocular tumors and 80% of uni or bilateral tumors are in group V at the time of diagnosis. Since December, 1987, we have been in a Cooperative Group to Treatment of retinoblastoma in Brazil that lists in table 1 and 2 classification most widely used to retinoblastoma intra and extra ocular respectively
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Eye Neoplasms/therapy , Retinoblastoma/therapy , Combined Modality Therapy , Neoplasm Staging , Prognosis , Retinoblastoma/drug therapy , Retinoblastoma/radiotherapy , Retinoblastoma/surgeryABSTRACT
Os autores apresentam um caso de paciente de 2 meses de idade, do sexo feminino, portadora de carcinoma de glândula sudorípara de regiäo palmar esquerda. Tecem consideraçöes sobre a raridade desta afecçäo nesta faixa etária e fazem uma revisäo da literatura médica sobre esta patologia. Acreditam ser este o primeiro caso da literatura internacional