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Unilateral Leukocoria in an Infant

A nine-day-old male infant presents with his mother to the pediatric clinic with a concern of a white spot in his right eye. There was no history of antenatal or perinatal complications and the mother's serology was negative. Physical examination was remarkable only for leukocoria in the right...

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Autores principales: Vasireddy, Deepa, Atwi, Jibran E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7752739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33364117
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11596
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description A nine-day-old male infant presents with his mother to the pediatric clinic with a concern of a white spot in his right eye. There was no history of antenatal or perinatal complications and the mother's serology was negative. Physical examination was remarkable only for leukocoria in the right eye. He was evaluated to have a Mittendorf dot. This is a benign clinical finding. Pupillary reflex check is an important part of a physical examination which can recognise pathological conditions such as cataract, retinoblastoma, metabolic errors with ocular manifestations and lead to early treatment before the child loses vision.
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spelling pubmed-77527392020-12-23 Unilateral Leukocoria in an Infant Vasireddy, Deepa Atwi, Jibran E Cureus Ophthalmology A nine-day-old male infant presents with his mother to the pediatric clinic with a concern of a white spot in his right eye. There was no history of antenatal or perinatal complications and the mother's serology was negative. Physical examination was remarkable only for leukocoria in the right eye. He was evaluated to have a Mittendorf dot. This is a benign clinical finding. Pupillary reflex check is an important part of a physical examination which can recognise pathological conditions such as cataract, retinoblastoma, metabolic errors with ocular manifestations and lead to early treatment before the child loses vision. Cureus 2020-11-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7752739/ /pubmed/33364117 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11596 Text en Copyright © 2020, Vasireddy et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title Unilateral Leukocoria in an Infant
title_full Unilateral Leukocoria in an Infant
title_fullStr Unilateral Leukocoria in an Infant
title_full_unstemmed Unilateral Leukocoria in an Infant
title_short Unilateral Leukocoria in an Infant
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7752739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33364117
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