Pigmented ciliary body medulloepithelioma in a newborn infant

Ciliary body medulloepithelioma is a nonpigmented tumor which presents during the first decade of life. It is rarely seen in newborn infants. We report a pigmented medulloepithelioma in a newborn infant, which showed a rapid growth. Ciliary body medulloepithelioma should be considered in the differe...

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Autores principales: Shah, Parag K., Meeralakshmi, Prajna, Shanthi, R., Saravanan, V. R., Kalpana, Narendran, Narendran, Venkatapathy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Clinical Image
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5657178/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29118511
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ojo.OJO_1_2017
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author Shah, Parag K.
Meeralakshmi, Prajna
Shanthi, R.
Saravanan, V. R.
Kalpana, Narendran
Narendran, Venkatapathy
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description Ciliary body medulloepithelioma is a nonpigmented tumor which presents during the first decade of life. It is rarely seen in newborn infants. We report a pigmented medulloepithelioma in a newborn infant, which showed a rapid growth. Ciliary body medulloepithelioma should be considered in the differential diagnosis in a newborn infant presenting with leukocoria.
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spelling pubmed-56571782017-11-08 Pigmented ciliary body medulloepithelioma in a newborn infant Shah, Parag K. Meeralakshmi, Prajna Shanthi, R. Saravanan, V. R. Kalpana, Narendran Narendran, Venkatapathy Oman J Ophthalmol Clinical Image Ciliary body medulloepithelioma is a nonpigmented tumor which presents during the first decade of life. It is rarely seen in newborn infants. We report a pigmented medulloepithelioma in a newborn infant, which showed a rapid growth. Ciliary body medulloepithelioma should be considered in the differential diagnosis in a newborn infant presenting with leukocoria. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5657178/ /pubmed/29118511 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ojo.OJO_1_2017 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Oman Ophthalmic Society 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Shah, Parag K.
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title Pigmented ciliary body medulloepithelioma in a newborn infant
title_full Pigmented ciliary body medulloepithelioma in a newborn infant
title_fullStr Pigmented ciliary body medulloepithelioma in a newborn infant
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title_short Pigmented ciliary body medulloepithelioma in a newborn infant
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5657178/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29118511
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ojo.OJO_1_2017
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