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Ocular and Periocular Tumors in Asian Indian Children and Adolescents
Swathi Kaliki1, Anthony Vipin Das2
1The Operation Eyesight Universal Institute for Eye Cancer, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Correspondence to: Dr Swathi Kaliki, The Operation Eyesight Universal Institute for Eye Cancer, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad 500 034, Telangana, India. kalikiswathi@yahoo.com.
Objective:
To describe eye tumors in Indian children (age £ 21 years) presenting to a multi-tier ophthalmology hospital network in India.
Methods:
Hospital-record review.
Results:
During the 3-year study period (November, 2015-October, 2018), 2911 children were diagnosed with 3003 eye tumors. The three most common benign tumors included conjunctival nevus (445, 22%), orbital dermoid cyst (206, 10%), and periocular infantile capillary hemangioma (181, 9%). The three most common malignant tumors included retinoblastoma (835, 88%), xeroderma pigmentosa related ocular surface squamous neoplasia (38, 4%), and rhabdomyosarcoma (17, 2%). Based on the age group, retinoblastoma (n=834, 28%) was the most common tumor in all groups, except adolescence where conjunctival nevus (n=194, 21%) was the most common.
Conclusions:
Overall, retinoblastoma is the most common tumor in children encountered in a referral based comprehensive ocular oncology practice in India.
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