Clinical Analysis of Retinoblastoma

ABSTRACT

We analyzed retrospectively 58 patinets of retinoblastoma for the first, ocular symptoms, gender, family history, funduscopic findings, treatment modalities and results from 1987 to 1993. Fourteen patients were bilateral, forth-four were unilateral, and seventy-two eyes were affected in sum. The average of age of the patients was 25.6 months. Their first ocular symptoms were leukocoria, squint and etc. Three patients were suspected as familial type of retinoblastoma. We claasified the patients according to the affected degree of the retina;over three-fourths of the retina was affected in 34 eyes. We treated them with enucleation, radiation, chemotherapy, episcleral plaque radiotherapy, laser photocoagulation and cryotherapy. After these treatments, orbital recurrence was observed in one case and among the ten eyes treated with eye-conserving treatments, nine eyes are maintained with periodic examination under general anesthesia and the treatment of laser photocoagulation and cryotherapy until now.