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  • Title: Difficulties in excluding the diagnosis of retinoblastoma in cases of advanced Coats' disease: a clinicopathologic report.
    Author: Steidl SM, Hirose T, Sang D, Hartnett ME.
    Journal: Ophthalmologica; 1996; 210(6):336-40. PubMed ID: 8887390.
    Abstract:
    We highlight the difficulty in differentiating Coats' disease from retinoblastoma. Two patients with bullous exudative retinal detachment and abnormal vessels are discussed. Histologic evaluation of the 5-year-old patient revealed retinoblastoma. The 1-year-old patient had Coats' disease by histologic identification. With this in mind, we suggest enucleation of such eyes if diagnostic uncertainty exists, since failure to treat retinoblastoma is a more serious error than enucleation of an eye with minimal function.
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