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[Tumors of the eye in childhood]
B Koraszewska-Matuszewska1, E Pieczara, E Zielińska-Pajak
1Kliniki Okulistyki Dzieciecej I Katedry Okulistyki Slaskiej AM w Katowicach.
Klinika Oczna
|May 1, 1993
Abstract:
Cases of benign and malignant tumors treated in Children's Ophthalmological Clinic of Silesian Medical Academy in Katowice in the years 1982-1991 were presented. The clinical material comprises 135 eyes in 129 children. The benign tumors occurred in 83 children (64.3%) and malignant tumors in 46 children (35.7%). The most often observed benign tumor was naevus pigmentosus (23.7%) and the malignant tumor was mainly retinoblastoma (34.8%).