Treatment of retinoblastoma with the transscleral diode laser. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • PURPOSE: To report a case of retinoblastoma successfully treated by contact transscleral photocoagulation with a diode laser. METHODS: In an 18-month-old girl, a small (6.6 x 4.3 x 3.2-mm) discrete retinoblastoma anterior to the superotemporal arcade in the right eye was treated with transscleral photocoagulation using a diode laser (810 nm) and a fiberoptic probe. RESULTS: The tumor regressed after photocoagulation, leaving a pigmented chorioretinal scar. There was no regrowth of the tumor 12 months after photocoagulation. CONCLUSION: Contact transscleral photocoagulation with a diode laser may be a viable new treatment for small retinoblastoma.

publication date

  • November 1, 1998

Research

keywords

  • Eye Neoplasms
  • Laser Coagulation
  • Retinoblastoma

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0032211598

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/s0002-9394(98)00142-1

PubMed ID

  • 9822245

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 126

issue

  • 5