Radiotherapy in benign orbital disease. I: Complicated ocular angiomas.

Abstract

Radiotherapy has been successful in the management of complicated ocular and orbital angiomas, but late morbidity (particularly radiation induced cataract) has been a problem. With modern radiotherapy techniques it is possible to minimise the morbidity to other tissues. By means of a recently developed method of lens-sparing ocular radiotherapy (initially adopted for retinoblastoma therapy) two cases of diffuse ocular haemangioma complicated by retinal detachment have been treated, with evidence of regression.

• Authors: P N Plowman, A N Harnett
• Journal: The British journal of ophthalmology (Br J Ophthalmol) Vol. 72 Issue 4 Pg. 286-8 (Apr 1988) ISSN: 0007-1161 [Print] England
• PMID: 3378026 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Topics

• Child
• Child, Preschool
• Choroid Neoplasms (complications, radiotherapy)
• Female
• Fluorescein Angiography
• Hemangioma (complications, radiotherapy)
• Humans
• Retinal Detachment (complications)