Bilateral retinoblastoma presenting as metastases to forearm bones four years after the initial treatment

Osseous metastases from retinoblastoma, the most common ocular malignant neoplasm of childhood, are reported most commonly in the skull and long bones. However, metastases to forearm bones are very rare. Here we present a case of bilateral retinoblastoma with metastases to right forearm bones four y...

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Autores principales: Kuruva, Manohar, Mittal, Bhagwant Rai, Kashyap, Raghava, Bhattacharya, Anish, Marwaha, Ram Kumar
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3237215/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22174523
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.90268
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author Kuruva, Manohar
Mittal, Bhagwant Rai
Kashyap, Raghava
Bhattacharya, Anish
Marwaha, Ram Kumar
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description Osseous metastases from retinoblastoma, the most common ocular malignant neoplasm of childhood, are reported most commonly in the skull and long bones. However, metastases to forearm bones are very rare. Here we present a case of bilateral retinoblastoma with metastases to right forearm bones four years after the initial treatment.
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spelling pubmed-32372152011-12-15 Bilateral retinoblastoma presenting as metastases to forearm bones four years after the initial treatment Kuruva, Manohar Mittal, Bhagwant Rai Kashyap, Raghava Bhattacharya, Anish Marwaha, Ram Kumar Indian J Nucl Med Case Report Osseous metastases from retinoblastoma, the most common ocular malignant neoplasm of childhood, are reported most commonly in the skull and long bones. However, metastases to forearm bones are very rare. Here we present a case of bilateral retinoblastoma with metastases to right forearm bones four years after the initial treatment. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3237215/ /pubmed/22174523 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.90268 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Bilateral retinoblastoma presenting as metastases to forearm bones four years after the initial treatment
title_full Bilateral retinoblastoma presenting as metastases to forearm bones four years after the initial treatment
title_fullStr Bilateral retinoblastoma presenting as metastases to forearm bones four years after the initial treatment
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral retinoblastoma presenting as metastases to forearm bones four years after the initial treatment
title_short Bilateral retinoblastoma presenting as metastases to forearm bones four years after the initial treatment
title_sort bilateral retinoblastoma presenting as metastases to forearm bones four years after the initial treatment
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3237215/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22174523
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.90268
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