Risk factors for extraocular relapse following enucleation after failure of chemoreduction in retinoblastoma

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Authors

Guillermo Chantada · Garrahan Hospital

Ira J. Dunkel · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Célia Beatriz Gianotti Antoneli · AC Camargo Hospital

María Teresa García de Dávila · Garrahan Hospital

Víctor Arias · Universidade de São Paulo

Katherine Beaverson · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Adriana Fandiño

Abstract

The risk of extraocular relapse is low after enucleation following failure of chemoreduction. Patients who underwent bilateral enucleation and those with scleral invasion are at higher risk of extraocular relapse.

Topics & Keywords

Ocular Oncology and Treatments Head and Neck Surgical Oncology Brain Metastases and Treatment

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: Pediatric Blood & Cancer

Volume 49, Issue 3, pp. 256-260

DOI: 10.1002/pbc.21067

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