Tag: tumor

  • Ocular Tumors

    Ocular Tumors

    1- Retinoblastoma: – Characterized by its early onset (children 2 to 3 years) and bilateralism and are frequent genetic trait – The development exophytic tumors do not form a protruding mass, but causes a retinal detachment – Pejorative factors: damage to the optic nerve; choroïdosclérale invasion Presentation is – Leucorie (amaurotic cat eye) – Unequal…

  • Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (adult and child)

    Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (adult and child)

    Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is defined as the abnormal proliferation in the bone marrow, abnormal cell clone, derived from the lymphocyte line and stuck at a specific stage of Differencia tion. In Europe and the United States, they represent 80% of leukemia and about 35% of childhood cancers. In adults, they are instead 4 times…

  • Exophthalmos

    Exophthalmos

    Exophthalmos is always indicative of orbital pathology. Orbital pyramid constructed with rigid bony walls opens forward and any increase in the content pushes the eyeball forward either in the axis of the orbital cone and exophthalmos is called axial or eccentrically and exophthalmos is said shifted. For example, a tumor of the optic nerve causes…