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Asymmetry of familial exudative vitreoretinopathy
Shripaad Y Shukla1, Swathi Kaliki, Carol L Shields
1Ocular Oncology Service, Wills Eye Institute, 840 Walnut Street, Suite 1440, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.
Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
|March 1, 2012
Abstract:
A 2-month-old male infant presented with unilateral leukocoria suspected to be retinoblastoma. Fundus examination and fluorescein angiography confirmed the diagnosis of bilateral familial exudative vitreoretinopathy with markedly asymmetric presentation (Stage 3/Type 5 in the right eye and Stage 2/Type 3 in the left eye).
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