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Retinoblastoma (cancer of the retina) - malignant tumor of the eye that develops mainly in children from the t... Read more »
Category: Retinoblastoma (cancer of the retina) |  Views: 145 |  Date: 26.07.2011

Most often, retinoblastoma genetically determined (if the child inherits a mutant allele of the gene Rb, then the second mutation, which occurs already in retinoblaste leads to tumor formation). Cases where parents who recover from retinoblastoma are born healthy children, have a rather small percentage of the total number of children in such families.
Category: Retinoblastoma (cancer of the retina) |  Views: 140 |  Date: 26.07.2011

Retinoblastoma is unilateral or bilateral. Two-sided form most often is hereditary.

Two-sided form of the disease occurs in about one in four patients and in most cases is hereditary.

Unilateral tumor is usually nenasledstvennye, but there is a clear link with the disease chromosomal aberrations.

As a rule, it is a deletion of part of one of the long arm of chromosome pair 13 with damage to the gene RB1. This damage is typical for retinoblast... Read more »
Category: Retinoblastoma (cancer of the retina) |  Views: 153 |  Date: 26.07.2011

The clinical picture of retinoblastoma depends on the type of tumor growth: endophytic or exophytic. With the growth of endophytic retinoblastoma develops from cells located on the inner surface of the retina. When exophytic form - from outer cell layer of the retina.

Most tumors are diagnosed when the process has not gone beyond the eye. Signs and symptoms of intraocular tumors depend on its size and location.

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