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Features:
*[[Small round cell tumour]].
*[[Small round cell tumour]].
*Flexner-Wintersteiner rosette.
*Flexner-Wintersteiner [[rosette]].
**Rosette with empty centre (donut hole).<ref name=pmid16551982>{{cite journal |author=Wippold FJ, Perry A |title=Neuropathology for the neuroradiologist: rosettes and pseudorosettes |journal=AJNR Am J Neuroradiol |volume=27 |issue=3 |pages=488–92 |year=2006 |month=March |pmid=16551982 |doi= |url=}}</ref>
**Rosette with empty centre (donut hole).<ref name=pmid16551982>{{cite journal |author=Wippold FJ, Perry A |title=Neuropathology for the neuroradiologist: rosettes and pseudorosettes |journal=AJNR Am J Neuroradiol |volume=27 |issue=3 |pages=488–92 |year=2006 |month=March |pmid=16551982 |doi= |url=}}</ref>



Revision as of 05:10, 29 November 2010

The eye is rarely seen by pathologists.

Histology

  • The muscles that move the eye have a high nerve:muscle ratio = ~1:4.[1]
    • Other muscles in the body ~1:250.

Retinoblastoma

General

  • Rare.
  • Malignant.
  • May be familial.[2]

Microscopic

Features:

Image:

Notes:

  • DDx of Flexner-Wintersteiner rosette includes: pineoblastomas, medulloepitheliomas.

Retinal hemorrhage

See Traumatic brain injury in infants.

See also

References

  1. Bilbao. 24 November 2010.
  2. Lohmann D (2010). "Retinoblastoma". Adv. Exp. Med. Biol. 685: 220–7. PMID 20687510.
  3. Wippold FJ, Perry A (March 2006). "Neuropathology for the neuroradiologist: rosettes and pseudorosettes". AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 27 (3): 488–92. PMID 16551982.